Open House Festival

Brentham Garden Suburb

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.

Getting there

Tube

Hanger Lane

Train

Ealing Broadway

Bus

E2, E9

Additional travel info

Bus stop at St Barnabas Church.

Access

Facilities

What you can expect

The walking tour does not have many places to sit down at on the way around

About

History

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.

Online presence

www.brentham.com

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