Style in suburbia with the comforts of home

摘要

Six Pillars in Sydenham Hill, South London, was one of two houses designed by Tecton partner Val Harding before his early death in 1940 (the other being his own family home at Burnham Beeches, Bucks). Completed in 1935 for the Rev Leakey, headmaster of nearby Dulwich College Preparatory School, it is conscientiously Corbusian in appearance, with pilotis and strip windows on the street front, and an ensemble of terraces at the rear. The house was never neglected entirely, but nor was it cherished over the years. When it came on to the market in the late 1980s, many months passed before a buyer emerged. Its new occupants, however, were determined that Six Pillars (listed Grade II~*) should be brought back to life, and this summer John Winter and Associates has completed a renovation of the property to that end.