Not far from where I live in east London there are a couple of blocks of council houses, designed by the London County Council's architects' department and built as part of the Ocean Estate at the strikingly early post-war date of 1953. They are built of slightly nicotine yellow brick with large casement windows and monopitch roofs, displaying the influence of Scandinavian modernism on the LCC at the time (or so Pevsner says). Individually they are distinctive little family homes and together comprise a surprisingly coherent and intact streetscape, arranged around a series of small greens. The residents clearly care for them, and I daresay in 20 or 30 years someone at Tower Hamlets will shake themselves from slumber and make them a conservation area.
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