The LCC's first council estate (Owen Fleming, opened by the Prince of Wales 1900): Grade II Arts and Crafts tenements radiating from a raised garden built from the rubble of the Old Nichol slum.
Location
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Look For
Striped red-and-yellow brick gables and the Dutch-style rooflines of the blocks, each named after a Thames village (Cleeve, Hurley, Sonning...).
Best Time
Weekday mornings for empty streets; Sunday mornings combine with Columbia Road, five minutes north.
Know Before You Go
Free, open public streets and garden; a lived-in estate, so keep noise down. Calvert Avenue has the estate's original shopfronts and Leila's Shop/cafe. Rochelle School canteen is nearby.