Building record 1457000000 - 12 Brendon to 22 Walden (excluding 18 Ladylaw) - Oxford Road

Houses built by Henry Brown whose most notable achievement in Gerrards Cross was the shop development in Station Parade. He also built North Park (part of which is included in the Gerrards Cross Centenary Conservation Area with the greater part in Chiltern District’s North Park conservation area). In the 1920s Brown bought land south of the Common from the Bulstrode estate and the plans for these houses were approved around 1925-7. Dinas is set closer to the road but all the others are set well back behind long front gardens with generous planting of shrubs and trees. Rhododendrons in these front gardens make a particularly colourful contribution to the streetscene and are said to be the vestiges of cover planted for game for the benefit of St. Huberts. The houses are in Arts and Craft style – all detached and two-storeys in height. Attic accommodation at number 16, Glendevon, is lit by an eyebrow dormer. Some are in stock-broker Tudor with black and white half-timbering. All have pebbledash render. Roofs are pitched or hipped, covered with plain clay tiles. Most also have gables and prominent chimney stacks are a feature. Windows are casements, usually with leaded lights and there is some stained glass, usually in long staircase windows. All have the character of “garden village” houses, only glimpsed at a distance from the road, along curved drives (most have retained the traditional gravel surface) lined with trees and/or shrubs, set in spacious, green plots. This is a local building of note within the Conservation Area of Gerrards Cross Centenary. (B1).