House in Rose Walk, Purley

HOUSE IN ROSE WALK, PURLEY - This house is set well back from the road behind a rose screen, which gives the road its name. The ragged lines of a rose screen do not form an ideal boundary to a formal access road, and the south-east aspect of the houses on this side of the road made the effective planning somewhat difficult, with so much land to spare between the screen and the house. The ideal arrangement would have been a side access and the house lengthwise with the site. The materials are grey stock brick and brown tile roof with wooden casement windows. Mr P Morley Horder FRIBA of London W , was the architect. [Recent English Domestic Architecture 1911  page 132-133]

Reference           Mervyn E Macartney: Recent English Domestic Architecture 1911 page 132-133