Montfort College Area

Montfort College is a four-storey building, with a semi-basement and rooms created in the attic with dormer windows. The building is in the shape of a double cross and the centre front has a projecting bay rising to a gable with brick pillars supporting a projecting cornice. The building stands in its own grounds which are parkland. There are separate garage blocks to the east. These have matching green doors and pitched slate roofs. The parking area is well lit with globe lights.

Montfort College from Botley Road

Grosvenor Court and Montfort Lodge are similar heights, but less imposing buildings. Montfort Lodge is about the same age as Montfort College and has a mansard roof. Grosvenor Court was built recently.

The houses in Montfort Close have large complex footprints, partly due to their integral garages. Although of similar size, the houses in Montfort Heights are more regular in shape. These houses are faced with a mixture of hand-made bricks and hung tiles, and their pitched roofs are tiled in Roman tiles or pantiles. The houses have integral double garages and are laid out in such a way that other vehicles can be accommodated in the forecourts.

Halterworth Lane

Halterworth School is single storey. The buildings are set well back from the road and screened by bushes. There is staff parking between the school and the road, and the entrance is prone to flooding in wet weather. There is no provision within the grounds for parents to stop to deposit their children, so parent parking takes place in the Lane.

Houses and bungalows in Halterworth Lane

At the northern end of Halterworth Lane, is an old residence, now flats, called Halterworth House, that is probably a nineteenth century building. It is brick built with some decorative features. Between the school and Halterworth House, there are two groups of housing. The southern one is a group of detached bungalows and houses, built on plots developed before the Second World War. The buildings are all different and some have been substantially re-built. Several have been extended into the roof space, thereby making them three-storeys high.

The most striking house here is Halterworth Acre with four gable roofs facing in each direction. Its roofs are steeply pitched and provide for rooms on three floors. The houses around Halterworth House are more recent.

Halterworth Acre

The western side of Halterworth Lane contains a few groups of houses that were built after the Second World War, but some few may be older. They include some pairs of semi-detached houses. Between these original houses, later roads have been inserted and the spaces filled in with houses.

The lack of a continuous, common building line on either side of the Lane, and the presence of mature trees, has helped Halterworth Lane to retain its rural aspect.

North east Halterworth
Seward Rise, Jenner Way, Feltham Close, Hestia Close

The buildings are a mixture of two-storey houses with a few bungalows. The two-storey houses vary between detached, semi-detached and terraced. They include some maisonettes.

The area has a reasonably consistent vernacular of brick facing and tile hanging. Many of the houses in this area have small projecting bays at the front, either containing a front window, or in some cases the front of the garage.

Jenner Way with stepped roofs

The usual arrangement in Halterworth is for roof ridges to lie parallel to the street. However in Hestia Close, a number of houses have been constructed so that the gable ends face the road. Because the ground levels change between each house, the builders have constructed separate roofs for each dwelling, even where the houses are joined into terracing. This is particularly noticeable in Jenner Way.

Parking varies between integral garages, separate garage blocks and marked bays. The dedicated parking areas do not all have the benefit of street lighting. Integral garages are part of the houses in much of Seward Rise and the larger houses in Jenner Way. They are under pitched roofs which extend along the front of the houses to incorporate the porch and ground floor bay window.

In Hestia Close, variety has been provided by the use of rough cast bricks, and some decoration has been included by the presence of soldier courses.

Central Halterworth
Saxon Way, Kennett Close, Kennett Road, Meon Road, Meon Close, High Firs Road, High Firs Gardens, Avon Crescent, Anton Close, Halterworth Close, Hereward Close

The houses in these streets are nearly all semi-detached two-storey buildings with garages that are either integral or stand-alone within the curtilage. The houses are arranged formally so that they lie parallel to the street, although some are separated from the road by grass verges between pavement and road.

Co-Op in Saxon Way   The rear of the shop forms a prominent part of the view in Halterworth Close without being in visual agreement with the houses there.

The Co-op shop in Saxon Way is the only retail outlet in Halterworth. The building has been much extended to the rear although the front observes the street building line. The position of the shop means that it can be seen without dominating the street. There is a parking area to the side of the shop which contains recycling bins and is not enhanced by the fencing and garages that are adjacent.

Benedict Close

Distinctive style of house in Benedict Close

This street has a separate entrance from Halterworth Lane. It comprises a spine with a series of small closes that open off on either side. Some of the houses have mock timber decoration. They are mostly brick finished and many of them have a small gable over the window above the front door. The houses with this feature have projecting porches under a small pitched roof. The windows are a mixture of leaded lights and clear glazing in uPVC or wood frames. Montfort Hall is approached from Benedict Close. It is a single storey brick building with a shallow-pitched gambrel roof covered with tiles.

Western Halterworth
Ashdown Way, Mead Close, Senlac Road, Wessex Gardens, The Vikings

Entrance to Ashdown Way Garage Block

The houses in this group are terraced or semi-detached. Few have garages or parking spaces within their curtilages. Provision for parking has been made in dedicated blocks of garages, which are rather rundown and mostly unlit.

The houses are finished in brick, with tile-hanging being a common decoration on the front upper storeys. In Wessex Gardens dark tiles have been used. By contrast the upper storeys of houses in The Vikings are faced with shiplap. Houses in this area have projecting front porches which are enclosed, although those in Senlac Road tend to be open.

Porches in Senlac Road

Holyborne Road

Terraced housing in Holyborne Road

There is pedestrian access to Holyborne Road via steps from Mead Close. The houses in this road are built as a series of terraces. Two of the terraces are perched on the hillside and overlook Tadburn Meadows. They have shiplap on the upper storeys and the roof line gives a pleasing unity to the group. The other houses face up the road and are tile-hung on the upper front storeys. In order to reach these houses, it is necessary to pass the back fences and garages of the other two terraces.