{"id":8289,"date":"2011-08-20T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:35:42","slug":"branch-hill-hampstead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=8289","title":{"rendered":"Branch Hill Hampstead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Built on a slope in the grounds of a large house, Branch Hill is <a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=2599\">Maiden Lane<\/a> in miniature, albeit less tatty and with wealthier residents.\u00a0 Both &#8220;by the great Scottish Corbusian architects Benson and Forsyth&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youyouidiot.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/a-trip-to-nw3.html\">Douglas Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8290\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Img_4782_th\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_4782_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help being reminded of my own past where a college was built on a sloping site in the 1970s in the grounds of a stately home.\u00a0 It must have been the pattern of the time, to make the best use of available land.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In both cases the original house has been retained and improved. In the case of Branch Hill, the original house was given a modern extension and turned into a care home, with housing being built further down the slope, at the foot of which lies a large family house.<\/p>\n<p>Photos on Flickr via link below:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/singleaspect\/sets\/72157627430063601\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/singleaspect\/sets\/72157627430063601\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More here from Inside Housing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehousing.co.uk\/home\/home\/the-great-estate-22425\">https:\/\/www.insidehousing.co.uk\/home\/home\/the-great-estate-22425<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old link<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.insidehousing.co.uk\/analysis\/in-depth\/the-great-estate\/6511577.article<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another take on it from the wonderful Modern Architecture:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modernarchitecturelondon.com\/buildings\/branch-hill.php\">https:\/\/modernarchitecturelondon.com\/pages\/branch-hill.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/11658628800390775081\">Douglas Murphy<\/a> taking a long leisurely look at the same estate:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youyouidiot.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/a-trip-to-nw3.html\">https:\/\/youyouidiot.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/08\/a-trip-to-nw3.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modernism in Metroland<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk\/branch-hill-estate.html\">https:\/\/www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk\/branch-hill-estate.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly Muncipal Dreams on the same subject:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/municipaldreams.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/02\/the-branch-hill-estate-camden-the-most-expensive-council-housing-in-the-world\/\">The Branch Hill Estate Camden. The most expensive council housing in the world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built on a slope in the grounds of a large house, Branch Hill is Maiden Lane in miniature, albeit less tatty and with wealthier residents.\u00a0 Both &#8220;by the great Scottish Corbusian architects Benson and Forsyth&#8221; &#8211; Douglas Murphy I couldn\u2019t help being reminded of my own past where a college was built on a sloping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-under-threat","category-housing-design","category-riba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30034,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/30034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}