Ruralise

Towards the end of the war most district councils were planning major house-building programmes, but Loddon Rural District Council had begun to do so much earlier, under powers for slum-clearance granted by the by 1936 Housing Act, with the intention of tackling under-supply and dilapidation in its own stock of rural housing for agricultural workers. By 1939 land for 163 new homes had been acquired in Loddon, Gillingham, Hales and Bergh Apton, and tenders for the construction of the first 40 had been returned – but with outbreak of hostilities the programme was put on hold. Continue reading →

Tayler and Green first met when the two young men joined the same intake at the Architectural Association in London in 1929. Herbert Tayler arrived from Shrewsbury School, though he was born in Java and lived there until he was seven years old. David Green was the son of Lowestoft-based architect, a partner at Roberts Green and Richards, and grew up in Norfolk, a classmate of Benjamin Britten. Continue reading →

If you live in Loddon, or any of its neighbouring villages, you will be almost certainly be familiar with the work of Tayler and Green: short runs of mid-C20th terraced houses, with low-pitched roofs, often in pastel-painted brick, sometimes with patterned brickwork or fret-cut barge-boards on the gable. Continue reading →