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This two-bedroom apartment, located just ten miles from central London in Ham, forms part of the Grade II listed Parkleys development, built by Span in the mid 1950s. The beautiful and tranquil setting, together with the quality of light, space and period detailing, make these some of the capital's finest apartments.
Parkleys
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History
"The exception to the dullness of most speculative developments in the 1950s was the work of Geoffrey Townsend, an architect turned developer, and Eric Lyons - close collaborators with remarkable tenacity when dealing with planning officers and whose attend to detail makes their simple design idiom special.
In 1954 Townsend formed Span Developments Ltd… Parkleys ws their first and most famous scheme, in which the key features of their successful packages were established…. the taller blocks have full-height glazed staircases and lattice detailing.
Parkleys is on the site of a nursery, and mature trees were retained, as were the gardeners. Lyons' low mushroom lights were also repeated subsequently."
Elain Harwood, Historian at English Heritage
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