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Modern Houses In The London Borough Of Merton

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ImageAddressArchitectDateNotesMapReferences
Copse Hill
5, Preston Road, LONDON, SW20 0SSTwo storeys. White frame infilled with blue brick and five identical large windows to the street elevation.
2a, Drax Avenue, LONDON, SW20 0EHPhilip Dowson/Arup Associates1972Two storey house with roof terrace at first floor level. Grey concrete and concrete blocks. Client: Sir Jack Zunz, engineer at ArupsAR Aug 72, pp83-8;
37, Drax Avenue, LONDON, SW20 0EQSixties house with original steel windows. Red brick and white render. The two halves of the roof crossover.
1b, Drax Avenue, LONDON, SW20 0EQTwo storey house composed of an agglomeration of blocks. Red multi brick, grey metal fascias, flat roofs.
50, Cottenham Drive, LONDON, SW20 0NDAn example of the houses on this estate of two storey, flat-roofed, L-shaped houses arranged in zig-zag terraces.
Christ Church Vicarage, 16, Copse Hill, LONDON, SW20 0HGDavid Rock and Robert Smart1964Two storeys of grey/buff brick including a roof terrace facing the road. Third storey clad in copper sheet with a monopitch roof.Pevsner p 451;
The Wall House, 31a, Cottenham Park Road, LONDON, SW20 0RXTwo storey, falt roofed house. Red, vertical-boarded upper storey oversails white rendered ground floor. Balcony on the isde elevation.
26, 26a, 26b, Cottenham Park Road, LONDON, SW20 0SACare Haven LtdTerrace of three townhouse. Rendered walls. Steps up to front doors. Recessed top floor balconies with projecting roof canopy over. Client: Lightwood DevelopmentsPlanning application no: 05/P1460; 05/P2826;
29, Ellerton Road, LONDON, SW20 0EWHolden And PartnersLarge two storey house. Mainly a new build with elements of the existing house retained. Garden elevation is a composition of render and glass reminiscent of the style of Schindler.Squirrell-Malkin contractor. Client: Mr and Mrs ProctorPlanning application no: 04/P2841;
Raynes Park
39a, Arterberry Road, LONDON, SW20 8AG3S ArchitectsNarrow two storey house. Red brick and white render walls. Combined window/rooflight on the street elevation.Planning application no: 04/P2729;
Wimbledon - South
photo thumbnail2, Avebury Road,
LONDON, SW19 3RA
Large, irregular, single-storey, flat-roofed house. Painted brick, dark horizontal boarding and deep roof fascia.
photo thumbnail7a, Sheridan Road,
LONDON, SW19 3HW
Also has a frontage onto Langley Road.U-shaped, single-storey, flat-roofed, courtyard house. Reddish-brown brick and deep roof fascia of horizontal boarding.
Wimbledon - West
The Oasis, 6a, Lauriston Road, LONDON, SW19 4TQBackland site down short drive.Two rectangular, single-storey, flat roofed blocks attached to form an L-shaped courtyard house.Planning application no: 04/P1154;
66, Murray Road, LONDON, SW19 4PEPeter Foggo and David Thomas1963cLow, rectangular, flat-roofed, 'Miesian' house. Glass elevations between mini concrete portal frames. Steel car-port in front of the front door. Client: Forrester
52, Ridgway, LONDON, SW19 4QR2006A stunning and unique detached house which has been stylishly built in a contemporary style. (According to the estate agents selling this speculative house.)
54a, Ridgway, LONDON, SW19 4QR
31, Ridgway Place, LONDON, SW19 4EWTwo-storey, flat-roofed, rectangular house. Upper floor is clad in white vertical boarding over a black ground floor.
16a, Spencer Hill, LONDON, SW19 4NYHorton, Earle and Associates Client: Architect’s own house
21, Hillside, LONDON, SW19 4NLJust visible down a long drive.Planning application no: 00/P0457;
Far House, Hillside, LONDON, SW19 4NLNorman Plastow1963
Wimbledon Village
28, Church Road, LONDON, SW19 5DHSir Basil Spence and Partners1958Backlands site down a drive.Single storey, U-shaped house. Grey brick. Demolished and replaced by house by Holden and Partners. Client: Wray
Kirkwood House, 28, Church Road, LONDON, SW19 5DHHolden And PartnersBacklands site down a drive abutting the end of Old House Close.Courtyard house, part single storey and part two. Curvy stair enclosure.Replacement of the demolished house by Sir Basil Spence and Partners of 1958.Planning application no: 08/P0858; 10/P0337;
St Marys Road, LONDON, SW19 R.A.J. Gazzard1950Simple rectangular, two storey house with pitched roof. Built on the vicarage site according to RIBA Pix. Client: Architect’s own house
31a, St Mary's Road, LONDON, SW19 7BPPeter Foggo & David ThomasGlass box house with black-painted, external concrete frame. Behind a high wall. One of a group of three houses with, unusually, a concrete rather than steel frame.
31b, St Mary's Road, LONDON, SW19 7BPPeter Foggo & David ThomasGlass box house with black-painted, external concrete frame, including carport.
9, Alan Road, LONDON, SW19 7PTPeter Foggo & David ThomasGlass box house with black-painted, external concrete frame, behind a carport along the street. Developed in conjunction with 31a and 31b St Mary's Road.Planning application no: MER314/65; MER91/65;
25, Belvedere Drive, LONDON, SW19 7BULydia Dransfield1953cAdjacent to no 21.Two storey monopitched block in front of two storey pitched roof house. Large south facing windows at first floor.'Architects' London houses the homes of thirty architects since the 1930s' p2, Newton, Miranda H;
27, Belvedere Avenue, LONDON, SW19 7PPHolden And Partners2012Behind a high brick wall.Three storey, rendered house. Reduced size top floor with curved stair wall. Client: Squirrell-MalkinPlanning application no: 06/P0642;

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