Great Linford housing, Milton Keynes, England
Designed as MacCormac, Jamieson Prichard Architects, 1976
John Ellis Project Designer with Richard MacCormac
Great Linford is a village within the larger context of Milton Keynes New Town. The project consisted in designing 74 social houses to connect with the village green. The design took the form of a street with four rows of housing, two facing the narrow street and the other two behind the intermittant car courts. The architecture responded to the local vernacular of brick terrace houses with pitched roofs that are part of the Buckinghamshire context.
The houses have subsequently been bought by the residents as part of the Thatcher Government’s Right-to-Buy programme and many owners have modified their dwellings to reflect their own preferences.
Houses turn the corners to maintain the street wall.
Row houses interspersed with parking courts.
The street terminates in a greenway leading to the village.
Site plan showing the curving path of the street with its rowhouses that hold the street wall interspersed with car courts.