5: victorian villages - The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Architectural style is unified and simple (South Ascot).
Early post-war dwellings display a number of
features in common with the inter-war
period, for example gables, pebble dashed
facades, rubbed brick arches to windows,
tiled window cills, and slates for roofing.
Public Realm & Streetscape
The buildings present their fronts to the
public realm. Low garden boundaries define
the interface between public and private
realm. Garden boundaries are typically
characterised by low brick walls and clipped
hedges, although these have sometimes been
replaced by pre-cast concrete modular
walling units or chainlink fencing.
The streetscape contains small scale ornamental
street trees such as cherries (South Ascot).
Street lighting is atop concrete or metal
lamp posts. Telegraph poles and wires are
prominent features of the streetscape which
create a cluttered skyline.
Telegraph poles and wires create a cluttered skyline,
as in this example from South Ascot.
Driveways counter the need for extensive
on-street parking. However, cars are often
parked on the street. In some instances
additional parking bays have been created
within wide grass verges.
Low garden boundaries define the interface between
public and private realm, as in this example from
South Ascot.
The streetscape is characterised by wide
tarmac pavements, tarmac roads and
concrete kerbs with occasional mown grass
verges, and small ornamental street trees
such as cherries.
Open Space/ Greenspace
Open, mown shared amenity greenspace
and mown grass verges are characteristic of
this type. In some cases houses are
arranged around areas of shared amenity
greenspace in the style of ‘suburban greens’
where they have an intimate visual and
physical connection with the green. These
areas of open mown grass incorporate some
vegetation, although this is often of a small
scale ornamental nature.
RBWM Townscape Assessment 51 Final Report 2010: Volume 3