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Source: Chris Redgrave
A run of 1970s terraced homes in east London has been conferred with grade II-listed status in recognition of its “striking” design.
Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield were commissioned to design 50-56 Ferry Street by Michael and Jenny Barraclough, who were keen to start a self-build community on the Isle of Dogs.
The Barracloughs invited Stout and Litchfield to produce a plan for the site at Ferry Street after meeting Stout at a New Year’s Eve party at the end of the 1960s and originally envisaged a development of up to 44 homes on the plot, immediately across the River Thames from Greenwich. However only four homes – three houses and a flat – were built.
Listing for Stout & Litchfield’s ‘dramatic’ 1970s Isle of Dogs riverside houses
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Source: Historic England, Chris Redgrave
A ‘distinctive’ and ‘striking’ block of 1970s Thameside terraces on the Isle of Dogs designed by Stout & Litchfield has been handed a Grade II listing
According to Historic England, the three houses and one apartment at 50-56 Ferry Street were ‘the product of an unusual and close collaboration’ between the architects and a ‘socially minded husband and wife duo’ and were intended to form part of a wider, never realised self-build scheme.
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Stout & Litchfield is best known for its Grade II listed New House, Shipton-Under-Wychwood which featured in the film