Totterdown Fields
{{Short description|Housing estate in London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox housing project
|building name = Totterdown Fields
|image = File:Housing for the Working Classes-103.png
|caption = 1913 plan of the estate
|location = Wandsworth, London
|area = {{convert|38|acre|ha}}
|units = 1244 houses
|coordinates = {{coord|51.4370|-0.1626|type:city_region:GB-WND|display=inline,title}}
|status = conservation area (19 September 1978)
|constructed = 1901 to 1911
|construction authority = London County Council
|construction style = Cottage Estate
|construction influence = Garden city movement, Arts and Crafts movement
|demolished =
|governing body = Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group
|famous residents =
}}
Totterdown Fields was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over {{convert|38|acre|ha}}. The estate was designated a conservation area, on 19 September 1978.
Context
{{LCC cottage estates}}
It was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 in Wandsworth. The estate contains 1,244 individual houses built over {{convert|38|acre|ha}}. It was influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the Arts and Crafts movement.{{sfn|Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group|2008|p=9}} The principal architect was Ernest Stone Collins.{{sfn|Survey of London Monograph|17}}
See also
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite web|title=The Totterdown Fields Estate, Tooting: 'Architectural design of a peculiarly rational and elegant kind'|url=https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/the-totterdown-fields-estate-tooting/|website=Municipal Dreams|publisher=Municipal Dreams in Housing, London|access-date=8 January 2016|ref={{sfnref|Municipal Dreams|2013}}}}
- {{cite web|title=Totterdown Fields Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy|url=http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/downloads/download/449/totterdown_fields_conservation_area|publisher=Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group|year=2008| access-date=8 January 2016|ref={{sfnref|Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group|2008}}}}
- {{cite book|last1=Burnett|first1=John|title=A social history of housing : 1815–1985|date=1986|publisher=Methuen|location=New York|isbn=0416367801|edition=2nd e.}}
- {{cite journal|editor1-last=Hobhouse|editor1-first=Hermione|title=The County Hall competition|journal=Survey of London Monograph|date=1991|issue=17|pages=14–25|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk17/pp14-25|access-date=4 June 2016|ref={{sfnRef|Survey of London Monograph|17}}|trans-title=County Hall|publisher=British History Online|location=London}}
External links
{{Public housing in the United Kingdom}}
Category:Housing estates in the London Borough of Wandsworth