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“A sunken sitting area is at eye level with the garden”
Located in the peaceful setting of Westrow in Putney, this light-filled three-bedroom house was built in 1961 by the renowned development company Span. Eric Lyons' design was sympathetically extended in 1973 by the Swiss architect Walter Strebel, whilst he was living at the property, adding a lovely west-facing sunken living space with a flat roof. The house retains the best of its mid-century features, with generous gardens, large windows and well-proportioned rooms that reflect the architect's original ethos.
History
Span are perhaps the most celebrated of all 20th-century residential developers and many of their buildings throughout the south of England are now listed. The company built 30 housing estates in total between 1948 and 1984. Schooled in the Modern Movement, having worked for Walter Gropius while the Bauhaus designer was in the UK from 1936 to 1937, Eric Lyons founded Span with architect-turned-developer Geoff Townsend. Their designs sought to bring the tenets of Modernism – light, openness, a sense of order – to suburban areas with generous landscaping and on a domestic scale.
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