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“Glazed double doors frame beautiful views onto the south-facing garden beyond”
This wonderfully bright two-bedroom terraced house was designed in the 1960s by architect F.O. Hayes for the award-winning Dutch Estate in Dulwich. The house has been largely preserved in keeping with the estate’s mid-century charm, with careful contemporary interventions introduced throughout. There is a private, south-facing garden at the rear, home to an abundance of plants including a rambling rose bush. For more information on the Dutch Estate, see the History section below.
Terborch Way
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History
Camberwell Council acquired the site on which Terborch Way stands from the Dulwich Estate in 1960; the existing houses were relatively large and by the late 1950s were in poor condition and nearing the end of their lease. The first drawings of the new scheme were submitted in 1964 by the borough architect F.O. Hayes to the Dulwich Estate’s office. The scheme had 136 units divided up into 36 two-person houses, 61 four-person units and 39 five-person units. The Dulwich Estate gave their approval, noting that “the problem of complying with a density of 70 persons to the acre has been well solved by erecting houses rather than flats.”
The Dutch Estate’s road names were a direct response to Camberwell’s twinning arrangement with the city of Deventer in Holland. The estate was completed in 1969; The Architects’ Journal of 16 December 1970 favourably reviewed the scheme as part of a report on the RIBA Housing Awards, with the project winning the award for Higher Density Public Sector Development. The assessors’ report praised the “excellent judgement in the size of spaces, heights of walls and choice of materials which produces an outstandingly pleasant scheme with the simplest of means.”
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