walk/tour
Parker & Unwin, G L Sutcliffe, G C Pearson & others, 1901
The Brentham Club, 38 Meadvale Road, W5 1NP
Britain's first co-partnership garden suburb, first houses built 1901. Parker and Unwin's plan introduced 1907, mainly Arts and Crafts style; fascinating social history.
Hanger Lane
Ealing Broadway
E2, E9
Bus stop at St Barnabas Church.
Brentham Garden Suburb in Ealing, west London, is no ordinary group of 620 houses. The first garden suburb to be built on 'Co-partnership' principles and an inspiration for the later, larger and more famous Hampstead, it has made a mark on twentieth-century domestic architecture, town planning and social housing out of all proportion to its size. The Labour, Co-operative, Arts and Crafts, and Garden City movements are all part of the Brentham story.
The suburb was designed to a plan by the leading garden city architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, with houses, mostly in the Arts and Crafts style, by George Lister Sutcliffe and Frederic Cavendish Pearson. In 1969 Brentham Garden Suburb was designated a conservation area, with Article IV Direction added in 1974.
Today Brentham is still a thriving community and its character and fabric have been extraordinarily well conserved compared with other small garden suburbs.