Streatham Court, London SW16

sixthland posted a photo:

Designed by R. Toms and Partners for the Bell Property Trust, circa 1936. Stock brick, Crittall-type metal casement windows, and those distinctive green glazed roof tiles — not quite Art Deco, not quite Arts and Crafts, but somewhere characteristically interwar between the two.

The complex is set back from the High Road behind an arched entrance, the blocks arranged around a central garden. The front doors apparently retain their original brass numbering and semicircular burnished copper panels above, decorated with fountains and shells.

The Bell Property Trust developments along Streatham High Road were not initially commercially successful. They found their occupants when émigré communities arrived in London fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.

Streatham in the 1930s was one of London's main entertainment districts, sometimes called the West End of South London. These were aspirational flats built for people who wanted to be near the theatres, ice rink and dance halls.