48 4 Listings Key to listings Ballots A Architect on site Address of the building The following buildings / meeting point and events are only Bookshop B accessible by entering Opening times C Children’s activities our public ballot: Nearest tube/rail station d Some disabled access 10 Downing Street → p131 Useful bus routes D Full wheelchair access Arcelormittal Orbit → p107 Occasional boat trip The Shard → p119 E Engineer on site G Green Features The ballots will be open f r o m 18 –31 August. Go to Normally open to the N openhouselondon.org.uk/ public free of charge ballots to enter. Please note, P Parking only successful applicants will be notified. Q Long queues envisaged R Refreshments T Toilets The programme listings on the following pages Barking & Dagenham → p49, Barnet → p51, Brent are ordered by borough area. Open House → p53, Camden → p55, City of London → p 61, London is in part funded by individual local Croydon → p67, Ealing → p69, Enfield → p71, authorities. Unfortunately Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich → p73, Hackney → p76, Hammersmith Kingston-upon-Thames are not participating & Fulham → p80, Haringey → p82, Harrow → p85, this year. Lobby your local councillors to ensure Havering → p87, Hillingdon → p89, Hounslow their inclusion next year! The index (→ p140) lists → p91, Islington → p93, Kensington & Chelsea buildings by type. You can also use our online → p96, Lambeth → p99, Lewisham → p102, Merton search facility at openhouselondon.org.uk/search → p105, Newham → p107, Redbridge → p110, and our app to find the buildings you want to visit. Richmond → p112 , Southwark → p115, Sutton All access to buildings is on a first come basis → p120, Tower Hamlets → p122, Waltham Forest unless otherwise specified. → p126, Wandsworth → p128, Westminster → p131 49 Barking & Dagenham BARKING ABBEY WITH B 62, 287, 368 ST MARGARET'S CHURCH An extended PFI school and L The Broadway, North Street, community facility in the heart Barking IG11 8AS of the borough. Design encourages O Sat 10am-3pm. N D R T P imaginative teaching methods. R Barking State of the art facilities B 5, 62, 287, 366, 387 have been developed in line Grade I listed St Margaret's Church with new pedagogy focusing on (1215 onwards) has interesting importance of communication. monuments, art and impressive ArchitecturePLB 2005. stained glass. Includes Arts and Crafts work by George Jack, and COURTYARD HOUSING Walker Organ (1914). Captain Cook L Courtyard Housing, Rainham married here. Abbey dates from Road, Dagenham RM10 7EJ The borough’s urban core is centered 666AD and includes ruins, Curfew O Sat tour at 11am. on what was once the Essex village Tower and Chapel of Holy Rood with R Chadwell Heath of Barking, but its real heart – 12C Rood Stone. Bell tower also B 103 and the place its modern history open. Ronald Wylde Associates A housing typology developed to begins – is Dagenham’s Becontree (restoration) 2005. particularly suit the needs of the ‘cottage’ estate. When it was built, over 55's community, Courtyard (1921-35) for workers at the nearby BARKING RIVERSIDE Housing was derived from studying Ford plant at Dagenham, it was the L Barking Riverside Project Office, the rich tradition of housing for the largest housing estate in Britain. bottom of Renwick Road, Barking elderly and the English Almshouse. Its sheer scale – 27,000 homes IG11 0DS The housing is of an intimate and a population of 100,000 – was O Sat 11am-4pm. Shuttle bus scale and surrounds a communal unprecedented. As the LSE’s Tony service available from Barking landscaped garden that forms the Travers writes in London’s Boroughs Station, check web listing for heart of the site. The key elements at 50, it has been ‘remarkably details. D R T C G P of this traditional housing type were successful’. So too, have more recent R Barking applied to create a development that additions to the borough, especially B 387, EL1 had a rich architectural character Barking Town Centre, with its A brand new sustainable whilst meeting the needs of the ‘fake’ ruin, colonnades and brightly neighbourhood is being created elderly. Patel Taylor 2014. coloured offices. Bold experiments alongside two kilometres of Thames in housing too, characterize the river frontage at Barking Riverside, DAGENHAM LIBRARY borough: new council housing at one of the most ambitious and L 1 Church Elm Lane, Dagenham Anne Mews and Barking Riverside important new developments in the RM10 9QS by the GLA with housing association UK - 10,800 homes to house 26,000 O Sat 10am-5pm. N D T L&Q stand out. people, and a London Overground R Dagenham Heathway station. Stage 1 of Phase 1 includes B 145, 173, 174, 175, 364 high quality example of shared A contemporary flagship building KEY FIGURES & STATS community buildings, incorporating situated on a newly-created primary school, nursery, church, 'Gateway Square' (part of the Mayor's café and community facilities. designated 100 spaces), the library 5 www.barkingriverside.co.uk is a shared 2-storey public building Regeneration areas with a Council 'One Stop Shop'. CASTLE GREEN A striking glazed façade with 82 L Jo Richardson Community residential units above the library School, Gale Street, Castle featuring coloured balcony panels. 35K Green, Dagenham RM9 4UN ArchitecturePLB 2010. Entry: New homes over 20 years O Sat/Sun 10am-5pm. Pre-book public areas. ONLY on 020 8724 1500. Last entry 12.30pm. Max 20 at one EASTBURY MANOR HOUSE 45 time. N D T P L Eastbury Square, Barking Listed buildings R Becontree IG11 9SN 50 VALENCE HOUSE L Becontree Avenue, Dagenham Barking & Dagenham Barking & RM8 3HT O Sat 10am-4pm. Regular tours. N D R T B P R Becontree, Chadwell Heath B 150, 62, 128, 368 Grade II* listed 15C manor house with medieval moat. Recently discovered late 16C wall painting and impressive oak panelling. Reopened 2010 with new museum galleries, visitor centre, and archive and local studies centre with new 'passive' collection strongrooms. Feilden Clegg Bradley (refurb) 2010. Entry: museum, café, gift shop, archives centre. Courtyard Housing © Peter Cook O Sun 12noon-5pm. Regular (14-19yrs). Commissioned by LBBD tours with architects of recent and run by Barking & Dagenham Walks + Tours refurbishment. Last tour 3pm. College, a key part of the civic R T B C A d regeneration of Barking. BREEAM BARKING TOWN CENTRE TOUR R Upney, Barking rated Excellent. Sustainable L Meet: outside Barking Town Hall, B 62, 287, 368 features include combined heat and Clockhouse Avenue, Barking Architecturally distinguished and power heating system. Rick Mather IG11 7LU well-preserved, brick-built, Grade Architects 2012. O Sat 10am/2pm. Duration 2-3 I listed manor house, originally hours. Pre-book ONLY via the residence of a wealthy Tudor THE BOATHOUSE AT THE [email protected]. N G d gentleman, hardly altered since the GRANARY WITHIN THE ICE R Barking 1500s. Contains 17C wall-paintings, HOUSE QUARTER Barking Town Centre has seen wood panelling and a fine Tudor L 80 Abbey Road, Barking IG11 7BT significant new development over turret. Many original features have O Sat 10am-1pm. Access via river recent years and the announcement been restored, including east turret. terrace. T d that it is one of London's Housing Charming walled garden. Richard R Barking Zones and London's first Artist Griffiths Architects (restoration) B 325, 366 Enterprise Zone will mean further 2003/2008-09. The Boathouse consists of space development over the next decade. within a restored 5-storey Victorian These guided walking tours will visit GASCOIGNE OPEN ESTATE Granary and Malthouse on the a number of award-winning schemes, LIVING MUSEUM River Roding, within contemporary as well as showcasing plans for the L 129a St Mary's Parade, Barking bronze-clad extension, featuring next 5 years. The walk will conclude IG11 7FT a low-tech approach to viable at the Open Estate Living Museum at O Sat 11am-5pm/Sun 12noon-4pm. sustainability. The Malthouse is the Gascoigne Estate. Displays include artwork, social the home of the Ice House Quarter, histories and soundscapes of an arts/creative centre. Schmidt BECONTREE ESTATE BUS TOUR, life on the estate created by its Hammer Lassen/Pollard Thomas DAGENHAM residents and project artists. D R T Edwards 2012. Entry: Granary and L Meet: Civic Centre, Dagenham R Barking Malthouse terrace. RM10 7BW B 62, 287, 368, EL1, EL2 www.icehousequarter.co.uk O Sun 10am for bus departure. Home to 4000 residents, the estate Duration approx 4 hours. Max 45 is now being rebuilt. The Open Estate THE MOBILE MUSEUM on tour. R T B P d project sought to document and L Barking Town Square, Clockhouse R Dagenham East, Romford celebrate the collective and personal Avenue, IG11 7LU B 5, 103, 128, 150 stories during this complex time of O Sat 10am-4pm. N B C A Built by the LCC during the 1920s transition. Barking and Dagenham R Barking and early 1930s, the estate was Borough architects 1964-1972. B 62, 128, 150 once the largest of its kind in Europe, Multi-strand art project by Verity- with over 25,000 houses. Later TECHNICAL SKILLS ACADEMY Jane Keefe touring twelve housing building programmes extended L 1 Short Blue Place, Barking estates within the borough, making the estate to house an estimated IG11 8FJ a new collection in response to the population of 90,000. Entry: all O Sat 10am-3pm. N D T built environment and contemporary parts of Becontree Estate. R Barking landscape via a programme of B 5, 62, 287, EL1, 387 making, digging and collecting Highest quality education and workshops. Entry: Mobile Museum, vocational training for young people Lending Library Billy Bragg is a Barking lad 51 Barnet FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE barrel-vaulted ceiling and Art Deco L North Square NW11 7AD wall reliefs by Mollo and Egan.