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Totterdown Fields

Totterdown Fields
1913 plan of the estate
General information
Location	Wandsworth, London
Coordinates	51°26′13″N 0°09′45″W / 51.4370°N 0.1626°W / 51.4370; -0.1626
Status	conservation area (19 September 1978)
Area	38 acres (15 ha)
No. of units	1244 houses
Construction
Constructed	1901 to 1911
Authority	London County Council
Style	Cottage Estate
Influence	Garden city movement, Arts and Crafts movement
Other information
Governing body	Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group

Totterdown Fields was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over 38 acres (15 ha). The estate was designated a conservation area, on 19 September 1978.

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It was the first London County Council cottage estate built between 1901 and 1911 in Wandsworth. The estate contains 1,244 individual houses built over 38 acres (15 ha). It was influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the Arts and Crafts movement.^[1] The principal architect was Ernest Stone Collins.^[2]

See also[edit]

• Boundary Estate

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Bibliography[edit]

• "The Totterdown Fields Estate, Tooting: 'Architectural design of a peculiarly rational and elegant kind'". Municipal Dreams. Municipal Dreams in Housing, London. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
• "Totterdown Fields Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy". Wandsworth Conservation & Design Group. 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
• Burnett, John (1986). A social history of housing : 1815–1985 (2nd e. ed.). New York: Methuen. ISBN 0416367801.
• Hobhouse, Hermione, ed. (1991). "The County Hall competition" [County Hall]. Survey of London Monograph (17). London: British History Online: 14–25. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

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