Viney Avenue (north-west end) and Harefield Court.

North-west Viney Avenue

Harefield Court and the northern extremity of Viney Avenue contain semi-detached houses with open plan front gardens. The houses in Viney Avenue have carports and the front gardens have been much adapted for off-road parking. By contrast, the houses in Harefield Court have garages and space for off-road parking. The houses are built of red brick, and the roofs are made of concrete tiles with chimneys. They have two-toned brick detail to the front of the houses.

Viney Avenue (north-east end) - older houses, flats and shops.

The eastern entrance to Viney Avenue is marked by the old Lodge House next to which are two flats.

After the turning into St Blaize Road, there is a three-storey building, which comprises a small parade of shops with four flats above. The end shop has been extended. This convenience store remains shuttered outside opening hours. The entrance to the flats is reached by a track behind the shops. This rear area contains outbuildings, parking lots and garages.

There are three Victorian houses in Viney Avenue, the Lodge House and two others. All three were part of the Harefield estate and were built in the in the second half of the 19th century. The Lodge House is built of grey brick, while the other two are primarily built of red brick. They have sash windows and a number of decorative features. All three houses have slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and chimneys. There is also a large bungalow built between the wars that was associated with Harefield Estate and is faced with pebbledash under a slate roof.

Victorian house in Viney Avenue

Viney Avenue

Most of Viney Avenue was built in the 1950s. It contains a mixture of terraced and semi-detached houses. In addition there are four bungalows built in the same style. Some of the terraced houses have central passageways giving back access to the inner houses. Many of the houses still have the original brick outbuildings in the back.

Maisonettes in Viney Avenue

The houses and maisonettes in the main part of Viney Avenue are constructed of red brick, with rendered fronts (cream or white). They either have features of white-painted wooden panelling or the walls are tile-hung, above and below the main windows in the front. Some of the main front windows are slightly bowed. The roofs are made of concrete pantiles and all the original buildings have chimneys.

Many of the houses have been extended. Extensions include porches, rooms created in the roof space and lit with skylights and conservatories to the rear. A number of detailed changes have been made to the doors and windows. Despite these modifications, the houses retain their group identity. There has been some infilling with newer houses in contrasting styles, for example tile-hung decoration, brown doors or lattice windows. The front gardens are on the whole open-plan although there are some properties with boundary fences or hedges.

An example of infilling Contrasting finishes in Viney Avenue

Selsdon Avenue

All the houses are of similar design and have been little modified. They are brick built, with tile hung walls reaching from above the ground floor windows to the roof. The roofs are pitched and there are vent ridge tiles. The houses have porches and bin stores by their front doors.

Terrace in Selsdon Avenue

The upper four terraces have back gardens that face the road. Thus the road is lined with wooden panel fencing. These properties face the brick retaining wall of a nearby hill and their front doors are reached down steps from a tarmac footpath. In places there is a second lower footpath to give access to the small open-plan but shaded gardens. They have no garages, and vehicles are parked on the road and verges by the back entrances. The remaining houses are on level ground at the lower end of Selsdon Avenue in the form of a stepped terrace. Their front gardens are mainly open plan and face the road, with a parking area in front.

Strongs Close, Faber Mews and Brickwoods Close

This group of buildings has been arranged so that their outline resembles that of Harefield House which they replace. This effect is achieved by pointed brick gables and mock gable ends.

Brickwoods Close

The buildings are all built with red brick, but with differing decoration. Some have flint inlay in the walls, others have dark wooden panelling to the front of the properties, and some are partly covered with pebbledash. The roofs have concrete tiles and there are no chimneys. Throughout the development, the window frames are painted a ‘rust’ colour and the doors are purple.

Houses in Strongs Close

There is a wide variety of different window shapes including: square, rectangular, diamond, pointed arch, French, dormer and skylights. The three-storey properties have French windows on the second floor, which open onto small balconies with black railings.

Westering and St Blaize

The estate has detached, terraced and semi-detached houses and terraces of small bungalows. Some of the terraces are staggered.

The walls are of brick and sometimes also tile-hung. The bricks are either greyish or pinkish, and the tiles are red, grey or brownish. The tiles are straight-edged, hexagonal or scalloped-edged. A mixture of styles is found in most closes. Roofs are of concrete tiles or pantiles. Some of the tiles are of an angular profile.

Roofs are mostly pitched, although most of the garages and porches are flat-roofed. Some of the roofs are of mansard style to the front. Roof pitch is generally fairly shallow, especially on the terraces. There are no dormers or roof lights. Residents do not like the flat roofs on the porches and garages. Chimneys are rare.

Certain houses have square bays projecting from the wall at either ground-floor or first-floor level, occasionally both. Some of these bays have an arched top. The original windows were hinged and were white. Many of the houses have uPVC replacement windows, usually retaining the undivided glazing.

Garages vary, some being integral with the houses and others link-detached between houses. In addition there are garages in separate blocks. As elsewhere in Eastern Romsey, many residents find that the garages are too narrow for their vehicles.

Mansard Roofs in St Blaize Road

St Blaize Road looking towards Viney Avenue

Garages in Westering

Campion Drive and its Closes
The houses in Campion Drive are generally of a traditional appearance. The houses are fronted in a variety of styles including brick with or without contrasting courses or features, part-rendered, part tile-hung, and some brick-and-flint areas. Each part of the development tends to have a consistent type of brick, which makes for an impression of connection between the houses, although the houses on the eastern part are less uniform in brick colour.

House roofs are pitched and often fairly steep. They vary between being half hipped and gable ended. Some houses have gables at the front, a number of which are infilled with weatherboarding or tiles, or rendered with a ‘half-timbered’ effect. There are no dormers or roof lights. Some houses have chimneys built externally to the side wall.

Campion Drive

Clover Way

Roofs are mostly concrete pantiles, although at least two houses have slate roofs. A number of the houses at the eastern end of the estate have white scalloped bargeboards along the roof edges of both the houses and garages.

Almost all the houses have some sort of porch, usually with a tiled roof. Some of the roofs of the porches are pitched in 3 directions, others just to the front. Some of the porches have been floored with quarry tiles.

The original front doors are all timber; some are dark stained wood and others painted, with a variety of glazing. Some are wooden laid with herringbone diagonal planking.

Window-sills in the fronts of the houses on the western part of the estate are brick. At the backs, window sills are timber. Lintels over the windows are of brick. They may be straight or arched, sometimes with a painted infill.

The original windows are timber, usually white or dark brown but some now have uPVC replacements. Most windows are casement. Some of the houses in the eastern part have square bay windows. Glazing varies between large panes, sometimes not subdivided, and diamond leaded lights.

Garages are designed to match house styles. There are double-width garages with pitched roofs, some being half-hipped. Other garages are double length, with the front half of their roofs pitched and the back half flat. The garage doors are of dark stained wood or white or coloured painted metal. The terraced houses have communal parking areas.

In places large extensions have made the estate more crowded. Side extensions especially of 2 storeys remove views between houses, a feature that was an original part of the design brief.

Little Woodley Farm

All four houses are detached and of two storeys with pitched roofs. The newer houses have their roofline extending down to the lower storey at the front (catslide roofs). The roof pitch is fairly steep at the back but shallower at the front. These houses have dormers at the front. They do not follow the style of the older house. All four houses have chimneys of unexceptional design.

The older house is of brick, tilehung in graduated tile sizes, and rendered. The modern houses are brick and rendered. There are clay tiles on the older roof; the others have concrete pantiles.

The old house has a part glazed enclosed porch with a wooden and glazed door. The newer houses have overhung porches. There is an unusual brick feature to the corners of the gables of the newer houses.

Woodley Grange

Woodley Grange, which is included in Grange Mews, is a large building of two storeys. There is a dormer window at the front and various gables. It has a clock tower which is much liked. The roof pitch is fairly steep. The building has been extended at various times, including a substantial wing at the eastern end and two large conservatories at the back.

The original part of Woodley Grange is rendered and painted. The extensions to it are brick. The roofs are of clay tiles. The building has several tall chimneys which have tiled tops to their staggered edges. There is a bay window on the front of the house. There is a large brick arch around the front entrance and a white-painted clock-tower (without clock) at the centre of the roof of one of the conservatories. The Coach House has brick walls, clay tiles on the roof and wooden painted window frames.

Grange Mews

Grange Mews consists of terraces of small two storeyed houses. The roof of each terrace is hipped with gabled windows of two sizes along the front elevation. The roofs are quite steeply pitched and there are no dormers, roof lights or chimneys.

The walls of the terraced houses are mostly brick. The smaller gables are finished with tile-hanging, and the roofs are of concrete pantiles. The windows are white with horizontal and vertical bars. The sills are of brick.

There are dark stained wooden doors with small windows. The porches have tiled roofs. There is a white-painted clock-tower (without clock) at the centre of the roof of the main terrace, with a weather-cock at the top.

Design Recommendations

	Replacement windows and doors should retain the original character of the house
	Retain character of the three Victorian houses in Viney Avenue
	Retain mix of house sizes
	Avoid out of scale extensions, especially those that crowd the area or restrict light to neighbours
	Extensions and alterations should be consistent with existing building forms and materials
	New flint features should be created in situ and not assembled from pre-cast blocks

A selection of roofs