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How History & Heritage Inform Design What have we done so far? We are here 2019 2020 MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY Pre-Application Community Stakeholder Heritage Community Stakeholder Stakeholder Meeting #1 Consultation Workshop A Workshop Consultation Workshop B Workshop C with Merton #1 ‘Land Uses’ #2 ‘History & ‘Neighbourhood Council Heritage’ Park’ Final Community Exhibition How History & Heritage Inform Design What’s the purpose of today’s event? This heritage workshop seeks to discuss how the local heritage has informed the architectural design on three levels: Workshop: ‘How to celebrate Masterplanning History and Heritage and Extend the High Path Legacy’ Architecture Public realm High Path ‘The High Path Regeneration offers an opportunity to create a distinct new sustainable quarter which integrates with its surrounding neighbourhoods, and is comprised of mixed and diverse land uses Merton High Street designed to last for successive generations’ Abbey Road Abbey High Path Masterplan. Design Code Pincott Road Pincott How? Phase One Phase Two Under Construction In Planning Rodney Place Morden Road Morden Assessing local heritage assets, Phase Two In Planning understanding local history Phase One Under Construction and urban character plays a High Path fundamental role in having a robust approach to creating places with identity. Key Phase 3 site boundary line Phase 1 site boundary line N Phase 2 site boundary line Celebrating History 1800 1805 1881 Industrial Revolution Lord Nelson dies Abbey Mills Increased use of machinery Lord Nelson dies at the William Morris and resulting in fewer farm Battle of Trafalgar. Emma Arthur Liberty open workers Hamilton continues to live factories in Abbey Mills in Merton Place Pre 1750 1801 1821 1750 Nelson’s Fields Abbey Mills is built Lord Nelson Merton Place is British naval commander Series of factories, main demolished and land Lord Nelson resides in centre of calico cloth sold off and developed Merton Place with his printing 1940 1926 into housing known as 1846 mistress Emma Hamilton The Blitz The Underground Nelson’s Fields The Railway The WWII Blitz brought The London Underground Merton Abbey Station devastating damage to Northern line reached is built for the London the area, destroying over South Wimbledon Brighton & South Coast 16,000 homes railway line 1907 1953 1929 Introduction of Trams High Path Estate Merantun Way Trams were brought to Housing was in great The London Brighton & Merton demand in the post-war South Coast railway was era, resulting in new estates closed and converted into Merantun Way Continuing High Path’s Historic Legacy Celebrating History Britain’s two biggest 18th-century celebrities Over a century ago, the site used to accommodate the house of Admiral Nelson, one of Britain’s greatest naval heroes. Merton Place was his home in the early 1800s. Merton Place Lord Nelson SITE OF MERTON PLACE Lady Emma Hamilton Celebrating History - Merton Abbey Mills Celebrating History William Morris was an artist, textile designer, poet & writer, philosopher and social activist. He is largely associated with Britain’s Arts and Craft Movement. William Morris Celebrating History William Frend De Morgan was an English potter, tile designer and novelist. A lifelong friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture. William De Morgan Celebrating Heritage CONSERVATION AREAS Merton and South Wimbledon have a rich and diverse architectural heritage, with varied roofscapes and contrasting palette of materials which articulate entrances, fenestration, as well as the top building parapets. There are two conservation areas nearby: Pelham Road and Wandle Valley. Pelham Road Conservation Area is located to the North-West of High Path, connecting Merton Road and Gladstone Road. The buildings, dating from 1879-1898 present ornate porched entrances, with the arch as the main design element of the frontages, articulating Conservation areas and listed buildings Key listed and historic buildings around High Path both windows and doors and Conservation areas (1-Pelham Road, 2-Wandle Valley) 1. South Wimbledon Station - Grade II listed building generating an array of repetitive 2. St. John The Divine Church - locally listed Grade II Listed Buildings 3. Rodney Place - locally listed elements with projecting bay windows 4. 25 Abbey Road - Former Princess Royal Public House Locally Listed Buildings 5. The Nelson Arms PH at the raised ground floor. Approximate location of Lord Nelson House Semi-detached houses on Pelham Road Illustration of Merton Place in 1803 Celebrating Heritage LOCAL VERNACULAR & MATERIALITY Celebrating Heritage LOCAL ELEMENTS OF HISTORIC CHARACTER PROPOSED DESIGN FEATURES TO BE INFORMED BY LOCAL HERITAGE Rodney Place Building Materials & Architecture Built in 1924, this terrace of Certain elements of material and 16 houses arranged in a architectural detailing found in horseshoe offers a quiet, South Wimbledon will be used to suburban environment with influence the designs for Phase 3. a strong rhythm to the door Archways and glazed brick are and window detailing. popular features of the area and may be included in the emerging designs. South Wimbledon Station Public Spaces Designed by Charles Holden Public open spaces will be and opened in 1926, the designed to bring people station forms part of a together and encourage family of stations along the everyone to spend more time northern line and is a Grade outside. The design for these II listed building. spaces will take inspiration from classic London squares. Pelham Road Public Art Located to the north-west of Sculptures and interactive High path and dating from artwork can help animate public the 1880s, this collection of spaces and offer opportunities to houses boast an array of celebrate local people, heritage repetitive elements including and the community by capturing arched windows and the legacy and identity of the doors and projecting bay places. windows. ‘How to celebrate History and Heritage and Extend the High Path Legacy’ Masterplan Architecture Public realm Masterplan - Reconnecting Neighbourhoods • Re-connecting to the traditional Victorian urban fabric; Victorian Terraces • Creating traditional streets; • Increasing connectivity through pedestrian friendly Traditional routes North to South Housing and East to West. Wimbledon Morden Hall Park, Abbey Mills & River Wandle Masterplan - Amenity Space for All Haydon’s Road • Creating a new Recreation Ground neighbourhood public park for the existing, new residents and the communities of the surrounding areas; • Re-integrate the High Path Estate with open spaces surrounding it; • Creating a green link. Nelson Memorial Gardens River Wandle Abbey Recreation Ground Masterplan - Celebrating Local Assets • Benefiting from its wealth of surrounding Victorian Terraces assets; • The design of buildings, public art and public open spaces reference to local materials and architectural features; • Connecting the place to its surrounding neighbourhoods, Traditional allowing the Wimbledon Housing masterplan to become an active part of the larger community. Morden Hall Park, Abbey Mills & River Wandle Masterplan - Re-thinking the Victorian Block The traditional Victorian perimeter block • Taking influence from Mixed use existing traditional Flats street patterns; • Providing strong design principles that create easy to Houses understand, safe and well overlooked streets; • Clear definition Mixed use between private and Houses public spaces. Flats Architecture - Materiality and decoding Merton High Street Bank House Building - Southey Road The Old Stables - Southey Road London stock brick with Merton Road Red brick and stone Queens Road London stock brick and white stone detail framing London stock brick Rich vertical articulation London stock brick and projecting brick details openings Projecting brick details add projecting brick details texture ! ! Retail at ground floor Punctuated openings Depth, richness of layers Archways to announce Facade layering through creating a first floor datum framed in white / vertical and contrasting palette entrances and courtyard recessed projecting brick line / Red brick and white breakdown of massing / of materials/ vertical access points / glazed details / Bay windows stone elements / Dynamic brick detail articulation / celebrating brick detail create vertical break- building parapet the corner / white crittal down of the elevation style windows Public Realm Archways Arched gateway, the Old Stables, Queens Road. Artist impression. Archway - view looking north from Rowland Way towards the courtyard. Public Realm Building & Street Names Public Realm Public Art Public Realm Community Artwork.