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"Greatwood is a small development of 19 houses, all designed by Starrett in a style he called the ‘H2 Design’."
Designed by the acclaimed architect Norman Starrett in 1966, this large townhouse is located on Greatwood, a quiet cul-de-sac in Chislehurst. Arranged over three storeys, the four-bedroom house offers generously proportioned, light-filled accommodation, most notably in the open-plan living, kitchen and dining areas which occupy the entire first floor.
History
In 1966, Norman Starrett was an ambitious young architect who had learned his trade working in the practice of renowned Modern architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. In Hyndewood, he was lucky enough to find a development company that shared his progressive ideas. Together they wanted to see housing in the UK keep pace with architectural advances in Scandinavia, America and elsewhere.
The development is one of a small number in the Southeast London area designed by Starrett for Hyndewood, a development company that is perhaps only rivalled by Span in the postwar era for the quality of its housing. The development was given a Civic Design Award in the 1960s, and the architecture and setting of Greatwood have been recently protected by a local listing. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner also singled out the development for praise in his celebrated Buildings of England series as, "one of the lamentably few good new developments in Chislehurst."
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