Design Guide

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• Introduction
• The design of the garden suburb
• New Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust
• Barnet Council
• The Trust and the Council
• Extensions
• Building materials and details
• Walling materials
• Tiles
• Roofs
• Dormer windows & loft conversions
• Gutters and pipes
• Chimneys
• Porches
• Windows and doors
• Garages and parking spaces
• Garden buildings
• Fences, walls and hedges
• Landscaping and trees
• Satellite dishes
• Shopfronts and advertisements
• Listed buildings
• Glossary
• Making applications to:
• The Trust
• Barnet Council
• Additional information

Tiles

Most houses on the Suburb were built with steeply pitched (45-55 degrees) plain tile roofs with gables and dormer windows creating a characteristic skyline. Some houses, particularly on the ‘New’ or later Suburb, use shallower pitches (down to about 40 degrees), and a few have pantiles. When re-roofing or extending, appropriate matching tiles must be used. Handmade sandfaced clay plain tiles were generally used. These may have a curved profile or ‘camber’ which gives a pleasantly irregular appearance to the roof. Usually the fixings rather than the tiles need replacing. A skilled roofing contractor may be able to save much of the original roof, and add matching tiles so that the result is virtually unchanged. If new tiles are necessary, modern sandfaced handmade tiles must be used. There are now a number of manufacturers of suitable handmade tiles; the Trust and the Council hold samples. Pantiles, which give a ‘roll’ texture to roofs, are comparatively rare but should always be retained. In the 1930s there was a fashion for green glazed pantiles, for example at 1 Wellgarth Road. These should be retained. Interlocking tiles of modern pattern are unsatisfactory as replacements and their use as a substitute will be acceptable. We will also resist proposals to use concrete tiles.

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