Secret Garden
Housing Scheme
On Mile End
Warehouse Site
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A
rchitect Jonathan Freegard had observed this crumbling warehouse
site next to his offices and home in Tredegar Square, Mile End, for
over 20 years. He had originally wanted to purchase it for his own
firm’s use as a workspace but when he eventually tracked down the owner and
found she did not want to sell, he came up with other ideas for her to develop
the site.
With the added value clear from the outset it took little persuading to get her to
pursue the suggested scheme. But she had never built anything previoiusly and
the architects had to guide her through the development process step-by-step
to eventual completion.
The original warehouse dated from the 1870s and ran along the backs of the
gardens of the houses on the south side of this typical late Georgian square.
It had been bomb damaged in WW2, little used for 20 years and was in a very
dilapidated condition.
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