Fairview Drive and Barton Close

The houses in the south and west sides of Fairview Drive and in Barton Close are substantial detached houses. They are mostly built at right-angles to the road, with gable ends facing the street. Some of the houses have bow windows at ground floor level, covered by a ridge that extends across the porch.

Fairview Drive, new infill

Barton Close

The houses in Barton Close are built of stippled yellow bricks with pantile roofs and with some tile hanging on the walls. The houses in Fairview Drive have red bricks.

Ashley Meadows

The 31 houses in Ashley Meadows were built towards the end of the 1960s and early 1970s and they have four or five bedrooms. There are three designs. Four houses have a triangular sideways pitch roof, eleven have an asymmetric sideways pitch roof and the remaining have front to rear pitch roofs. The houses are either brick or tile faced. Several houses have replaced the original doors and windows but they still closely follow the previous design. The houses all have open plan gardens to the front and medium-sized rear gardens. These gardens are now well established. Some houses have tandem garages which are too narrow for many makes of modern cars.

Carisbrooke Court

Carisbrooke Court

As is common elsewhere on the steeper Cupernham slopes, the buildings in Carisbrooke Court are mostly bungalows with superb views across the Test Valley. There are a few houses near the entrance to the road and these are tile hung on the upper storey. Beyond these, the road splits into three sections each of which is on the hillside.

The bungalows are brick built in red or yellow bricks. Some have areas of stone cladding. They all have large picture windows and chimneys. The roofs are covered with interlocking tiles. Some buildings face the road while others are set at right angles to it. Many have had extensions added to the original units. Detached garages are normal in this estate.

Cupernham Lane

Most of the houses along the eastern side of Cupernham Lane are bungalows. Some are close to their original size and shape, but many have been extensively modernised and often extended. Except for the four at the northern end of the road, they are all different.

Amongst the properties are houses, some of which are older than the bungalows. These houses contain some charming features. For example one of them has a row of coloured glass above a casement window. Another has a row of scalloped ridge tiles over a slate roof. There is a pair of houses, each of which has several small gables over dormer windows. One of the roofs of these houses has a terracotta bird finial, and a fleur-de-lys on its outbuilding. This outbuilding is notable for having a chimney and being roofed with clay tiles.   Terracotta bird

Older houses Fleur-de-lys on outbuilding

Durban Close and Cupernham Close

Durban Close

These two closes, being on the hillside, consist of bungalows each of which is in its own substantial plot. Some of them have very striking façades that have been split vertically, so that one part of the wall is rendered and painted while the other is brick finished. Some of the others have brick pillars at the corners and a stone finish between, with a tile hung gable above. Other houses have façades that have been split horizontally just above the window sills, with small stones below and weather boarding above.

Richmond Lane

Richmond Lane consists of a mixture of houses and bungalows. Twenty-five properties in the lane date from the 1960s and lie well back from the road and there is one built in 2005. They have long steep drives to accommodate the sloping land on which they are built and they all have excellent views across the Test Valley.

Some of the bungalows in Carisbrooke Court have grounds that abut Richmond Lane. Houses with addresses in ‘Richmond Lane’ lie above these on the southern side of the road. The houses on the northern or lower side of Richmond Lane have larger footprints than those opposite. Near the entrance to Brook Way there are chalet style houses.

The houses are brick built, red or yellow and have integral garages. Those on the upper, northern side of Richmond Lane are of yellow and red mix brick, similar to that of Brook Way, and were built in the same period. Some of them have substantial single storey projecting wings under pitched roofs.

Richmond Lane above the road

Brook Way

Brook Way is a 1960s development on the site of the former Brook House. A number of the residents have lived in Brook Way for over 30 years. Brook Way runs from Richmond Lane to Woodley Lane in an elongated semi circle with an extension into a cul de sac at the eastern end. The properties consist of a mix of detached houses, chalet style houses and bungalows.

The northern side of the road consists almost entirely of bungalows in a mix of designs. All are constructed of brick and concrete tile. The bricks are either local Michelmersh or London Sanded texture. All the tiles are interlocking concrete. The properties on this side are generally at a higher level than the road some having fairly steep drives.

Brook Way looking North East

On the south side of the road are properties with a ground and first floor with the exception of one bungalow at the junction with Woodley Lane. A few houses have balconies on the flat roofs of their garages.

Design Recommendations

	Changes to houses should retain the integrity of their particular area.
	Historic building details such as fenestration should be preserved wherever possible.