Dorset Estate

The Dorset Estate is a post-war Modernist housing estate in Bethnal Green,[1][2] London.

Dorset Estate facade.

Design

The estate was designed by Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin and completed in 1957.[3] The same architects designed the nearby Sivill House, completed in 1962.

The estate includes two Y-shaped 11-storey blocks, George Loveless House and James Hammett House, and the lower-rise James Brine House, Robert Owen House and Arthur Wade House. The blocks are named after the Tolpuddle Martyrs.[4]

Altogether there are 266 homes on the estate.

References
  1. "Community Catalogue - Tower Hamlets Community Catalogue". Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  2. "Tower Hamlets Housing - Bell Phillips Architects". 27 October 2016.
  3. Malcolm Reading and Peter Coe, Lubetkin and Tecton: An Architectural Study (Triangle Architectural Publications, 1992) ISBN 1-871825-01-6
  4. Love London Council Housing, http://www.lovelondoncouncilhousing.com/2012/01/dorset-estate-tower-hamlets.html

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