Some Interesting Modern Houses In Kingston Upon Thames: Coombe

Image	Address	Architect	Date	Notes	References
Coombe
	Dorich House, Kingston Vale, LONDON, SW15 3RN	Dora Gordine with H.I. Cole	1936	Own house by the artist, Dora Godine aka Dora Hare. With Henry Cole. Overlooking Richmond Park.	IoE Ref No: 203133
	Arden House, Kingston Vale, LONDON, SW15 3RN	Paul Brookes Architects	c 2000’s	White house with pitched roofs and glassy central staircase space. Behind high gate and bushes, most visible from the top of a bus.
	Pleasant View, Kingston Hill, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7LX			Huf house. Replacement for house c 70’s.
	Birch Glades, Coombe Park, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7JB	A.B. Llewelyn Roberts	1930’s	Curved central facade on garden side. Originally ‘Newsomes’.
	Birch Grove, Coombe Park, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7JB	Vernon Gibberd of Gore, Gibberd and Saunders	1970	A large house that has undergone three alterations, one sympathetic, including a glass canopy and extra slot windows, then an unsympathetic new mansard top storey in the 90’s and thirdly a make-over in the 2000’s included modernising the dormer windows.	JP p88
	14 Ladderstile Ride, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7LP	Threefold Architects	2009	Extensive courtyard house, the courtyard is unusually on the street side and concealed behind timber slats. Also includes a ‘living wall’. Referred to as ‘Ladderstile House’ by the architects.
	Vincent House, Warren Road, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HY	Kenneth Wood	1955	DEMOLISHED c 2000’s	AR
	Picker 1, Warren Park, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HX	Kenneth Wood	1968	A composition of monopitch roofs around a courtyard using concrete panels and looking more like a school or factory than a house. For a businessman and art lover.
	Robin Hill, Coombe Hill Rd, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7DU	Tayler and Green	c1955	Imhof house. Largely concealed behind dense planting.
	Woodlands, Coombe Hill Rd, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7DU	Patrick Gwynne	1959	Only survivor of a group of 4 houses.	NMR:TQ 27 SW 67
	Three houses, Coombe Hill Rd, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7DU	Patrick Gwynne	1959	DEMOLISHED: ‘Fairoaks’, ‘Mulberry’, and ‘Junipers’.
	140 Coombe Lane West, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7DD			Horizontally-proportioned red brick house with unusually wide frontage.
	15 Lord Chancellor Walk, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HG			A nice composition of shapes when seen end-on from the road.
	Lake House, The Drive, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7NY	Stout and Litchfield	1977	Lakeside setting. Built in the grounds of ‘Kingfishers’. A cluster of small blocks with quarter-pyramid roofs.
	8 The Drive, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7NY	T. Bates and Sons (builders)		Thirties house with curved tower.
	8 Lord Chancellor Walk, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HG			An example of a face-on house in this development.
	26 Lord Chancellor Walk, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HG			With glassy side extension.
	27 Lord Chancellor Walk, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HG			Sympathetically extended in 2006 by Michael Woods.
	2 Lord Chancellor Walk, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT2 7HG			An estate of 28 detached houses with shallow-pitched ‘butterfly’ roofs. Well-composed elevations, especially the end-on houses like this one.
Coombe (South of Coombe Lane West)
	Turret House, Fitzgeorge Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 4SH	A.B. Llewelyn Roberts		A simple thirties, brick house with an exceptional glass stair turret that gives the house a focal point.
	Miramonte, Warren Rise, NEW MALDEN, KT3 4SJ	Maxwell Fry	1937	A major house of the thirties, but engulfed by suburbia. The gatehouse/garage is on the left of the photo. The main house was refurbished and extended by Avanti Architects in 2002).	TMHT p108; NMR:TQ 26 NW 26IoE Ref No: 203198
	Studio House, 7 Neville Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 4SN			30’s house with 90’s top-heavy mansard roof and south-facing atrium.
	16 Woodlands Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UN			White rendered house. Originally thirties, extra floor and new porch added in a complementary style by The Brooks Practice.
	39 Woodlands Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UL			Originally thirties. Much altered including new mansard. Some extensions in the course of being used as a school.
	25, High Drive, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UJ			White-rendered corner house.
	57 Woodlands Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UH	Wells Coates and G Pleydell Bouverie		A 'Sunspan' house. A standard house design, an interesting idea to position a house at 45º to the road in order to get two sunny facades on the southern garden side.
	65 Woodlands Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UH	Wells Coates and G Pleydell Bouverie		A 'Sunspan’ house.
	69 Woodlands Avenue, NEW MALDEN, KT3 3UH	Wells Coates and G Pleydell Bouverie		A 'Sunspan' house.

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