Oakshott Court is a Modernist housing estate which sits between Euston and St Pancras stations in Camden’s Somers Town, housing 114 flats and maisonettes over three levels. Designed for London County Council in 1976, by the acclaimed Hungarian architect Peter Tábori, Oakshott was originally named Polygon Road Estate after Jacob Leroux’s thirty-two house estate which occupied the site previously. Its three terraces which are arranged in an L-shape, follow the principle of a Ziggurat layout, with successively receding levels.

Once a student of Richard Rogers, Tábori was a key figure in the development of what came to be known as Camden Council’s golden age of progressive social-housing of the 1970’s, under Sydney Cook’s directorship of London Borough of Camden architects. In his design of Oakshott, and previously the Whittington Estate in Camden’s Highgate New Town, Tábori endorsed many of the principles of low-rise social estate housing laid down by his predecessor Neave Brown and came to be associated with a pioneering approach to public housing, renowned for its humanistic approach and empathy for the people living within it. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Tábori believed there was no need to build high to achieve high density and Oakshott was no exception; as a result, his plans were ingeniously compact and space saving yet with open and spacious interiors and most crucially, with individual front entrances and private external space.