‘Streamline in the Suburb’ Hampstead Garden Suburb Walk

07/05/2022

‘Streamline in the Suburb’ Hampstead Garden Suburb Walk -Fully Booked

Led by Joe Mathieson

Saturday 7 May 2022 

Start: East Finchley tube station, 11.00 am

Finish:  Lytton Close (closest station East Finchley), 13.30 am

A walking tour exploring the 1930s Streamline Moderne architecture of Hampstead Garden Suburb, led by Joe Mathieson of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust.

The suburb was first designated a Conservation Area in 1968, is protected by an Article 4 direction, and includes some exceptionally well-preserved buildings from the interwar period.

The walk will explore the suburban Streamline Moderne architecture of the speculative builders who toned down the International Style.  We will look at the typology of the Art Deco house, which combined the traditional and the modern in a new way, especially with the use of ‘Crittall’ windows.

Highlights of the tour include East Finchley tube station (Charles Holden, 1939), Belvedere Court  (Ernst Freud, 1938), Kingsley Close (Welch, Cachemaille-Day & Lander, 1934) and Lytton Close  (G. G. Winbourne, 1935).

Joe Mathieson is the Architectural Support Officer at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. He was formerly a caseworker at the Twentieth Century Society.

Members:  £18  Non-Members: £22

Not a member yet? Join here and benefit from event ticket discounts. Looking to support our campaigning? Donate to our casework  here.

The Twentieth Century Society is a registered charity, no 1110244

Above: Belvedere Court, 1938 Photograph: Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust.

The Twentieth Century Society is an IHBC (Institute of Historic Building conservation) recognised CPD provider.

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