1.”The Ship” public house, a Grade II listed building with old tile roof, possibly 17th Century
2.“The Archers” Wine Bar, a Grade II listed building with old tile roof, probably 17th Century
3. At corner of Balgores Lane shops with flats, designed for the garden Suburb in 1912.
4. Site of Humphrey Repton’s cottage (the 18th Century Landscape gardener), Now occupied by TSB.
5. Oak – Timbered cottage. Erected at the white city in 1910. Moved here in 1913.
6. Oak – timbered cottages at 3, 5 & 7. Heath Drive. Designed by Bunney & Makins for the 1910/11 Exhibition.
7. Pair of houses by T. M. Wilson. The one on the north side was rebuilt after war damage.
8. Three large houses by Bunney & Makins (15,16 & 17) No.16 has the foundation stone.
9. ENTER ELM WALK to see three large houses by Curtis Green on the north side (Nos. 3 , 5 & 7).
10. The fish Ponds were part of the original Gidea Hall estate.
11. The wall and gates are Grade II listed buildings from the Gidea Hall estate dated 1750 and are owned by the society.
12. No. 41 Heath Drive. A cottage by Parker & Unwin is Grade II Listed.
13. Northern corner Meadway and Heath Drive – a Grade II listed house by Curtis Green (No.43 Heath Drive).
TURN LEFT INTO MEADWAY
All the houses in Meadway are Exhibition houses except No.13
14. Another cottage by Curtis Green at No.3
15. Cottage by Crickmer at No. 36 Meadway won 1st prize in the £375 class.
16. Another cottage by Crickmer at No. 34.
17. Grade II listed cottage by Van’t Hoff & Maxwell at No. 27.
18. Grade II listed cottage by Phillip Tilden at No. 16.
No.7 Meadway was designed by Percy Houfton who won first prize for a cottage design at Letchworth Garden City.
19. Cottage by Herbert Welch at No. 1 Meadway. Won 2nd prize in the £375 class.
TURN LEFT INTO PARKWAY
20. Nos. 34 , 38 , 40 , 42 & 44 Parkway are all Exhibition houses (No. 36 is new).
21. Note No. 34 by Reginald Logden.
RETURN TO MEADWAY AND MOVE NORTH ALONG PARKWAY
Numbers 46 to 62 Parkway are all Exhibition houses from 1910/11, in particular
No. 54 won the 1st prize in the Class 1 category for detached houses.
22. No.54 Parkway by Geoffrey Lucas won 1st prize in the £500 class.
TURN RIGHT INTO REED POND WALK.
23. A coveranted open space and registered town green. Note: Almost all the houses in Reed Pond Walk are 1910/11 Exhibition houses
24. No.23 Reed Pond Walk by Clough William-Ellis (chimneys Demolished)
25. No.29 Reed Pond Walk By Edwin Guns
26. No.31 Reed Pond Walk by Reginald Longden may have won 2nd prize in the £500 class.
27. No.28 Reed Pond Walk by Crickmer, also No.30
28. No.33 Reed Pond Walk by Parker & Unwin
29. A pair of Grade II listed houses by Baillie Scott at Nos. 36 & 38 Reed Pond walk. Note the pargetting on No.36
TURN RIGHT INTO HEATH DRIVE
30. Between Reed Pond Walk and Meadway is a group of large houses in Georgian style by Ronald P.Jones (Nos. 45,46,47 & 48 Heath drive) and a house by A.E. & T.T. Sawday in more vernacular style (no.44). No.49 on the corner of Reed Pond Walk is by William Stewart
RETURN TO REED POND WALK AND MOVE NORTH ALONG HEATH DRIVE
31. On the corner of Heath Drive and Risebridge Road is an Exhibition house by G.L Pepler & E.J Allen (no.57 Heath Drive)
32 & 33. 35 houses in “modern” style were built in Heath Drive, Brook Road and Eastern Avenue for the 1934 “Modern Homes” Exhibition
RETURN VIA HEATH DRIVE TO RISEBRIDGE ROAD
34. Which contains many 1910/11 Exhibition house
THEN VIA REED POND WALK AND PARKWAY TO GIDEA CLOSE
35. Gidea Close, a covenanted open space occupied by a tennis club. The grass plot on the northern side is the site of Gidea Hall, demolished circa 1930.
RETURN VIA ELM WALK AND HEATH DRIVE TO MAIN ROAD
The Civic Society is indebted to Larry Leicester, a former member, for the design of the two walks and the line drawings of the properties
