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Welch, Cachemaille-Day and Lander

Edgware HA8 7LF

This small speculative estate was built opposite the recently opened Edgware tube station and was one of the first set of houses in Metro-Land, and indeed Britain, to use elements of the art deco style in housing. This synthesis between traditional house forms and deco stylings produced the ‘Sun Trap’ style that quickly spread throughout suburbia. The new elements – white walls, decorative ironwork, curved windows (the sun trap) – lent these new houses a slightly Continental glamour while still embodying the stout principles of British houses: ‘no flat roofs here, please’.