Penkhull Garden Village Conservation Area Appraisal

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5.2 Architectural Character, Materials, Colours and Textures5.21 StyleThe Conservation Area has one distinguishing defined style which has variations of atheme. This style is one which is repeated in garden villages and cities throughout thecounty. Due to the three different building dates there have emerged three types ofhouses within this overall character. The influence of the Arts and Crafts movement isalso visible in the architecture.FIGURE 17: Letchworth Garden City showing the similar design of the houses5.22 Plan, Form and MassingThe plan, form and massing of the houses was carefully designed to suit a variety ofrequirements from smaller housing to larger family housing but to allow every residentaccess to a garden and good daylight.Houses were designed to make the most of the existing views and green space and toallow children to play safely near their houses.The houses are not set right against the road and are also not in straight lines but arepositioned at angles and on light curves from the road. This breaks up the form andgives a gentle character to the area. All of the houses (with the exception of numbers40 and 10 Barnfield) have both front and back gardens, the latter being large enough tocultivate and the society hoped that this would allow resident to add to their income byselling home-grown produce. Residents were also encouraged to have window flowerboxes.Houses were built so that, wherever possible, they would be southward facing.Outbuildings, walls and fences were frowned upon by the society as the created asense of enclosure and urbanised the area and it was hoped to create a rustic feel tothe area. However some houses had small attached outbuildings to hold fuel andbicycles.20
As mentioned in section 4.1 the houses were built in three different periods and thehouse type and massing reflect this.FIGURE 18: Showing the massing of the second phase of development21
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