The Hanger Hill Garden Estate is one of the finest examples of what is popularly known as Mock Tudor architecture. But don't mock it too hard. The style is no longer unfashionable: the Estate's quiet surroundings, disturbed only by birdsong and the snuffling of hedgehogs in the privet on summer evenings, are within easy reach of both Heathrow and central London. The houses and flats on the Estate command high prices and residents will bear witness to the reality of what the writer Nicklaus Pevsner has described as "the beau ideal of romantic ideal Metroland".

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The Estate covers some 258 flats in blocks along Queens Drive, Links Road and Monks Drive, and 361 houses in Links Road, Queens Drive, Monks Drive, Vale Lane, Princes Gardens and Tudor Gardens. Click here for a map of the Estate and surrounding area.

The flats, recently refurbished at considerable expense, are styled on Tudor manor houses and are surrounded by extensive lawns. The houses are built in pairs or short terraces of 4, 6 or 8 according to half a dozen templates that create variety within the overall design. Service roads with garages run behind the houses and flats.

During the early years of the last century, the land the Estate stands on was an aerodrome and aircraft manufacturing centre. The houses and flats were built in two phases between 1928 and 1936 to a design by architects Douglas Smith and Barley. The Estate's heyday in the pre-war years later gave way to decline as the gardens and service roads fell into a legal limbo and maintenance all but ceased. Residents have since progressively taken matters into their own hands, and a company controlled by the Residents Association now owns and manages the gardens and service roads, on behalf of all who live here. To read a more detailed history, click the link on the left.

The Estate's special character derives from its privacy -- there are only three ways in by road -- and the quality of its half-timbered style and formal landscaping, including a rose garden at the north end of Princes Gardens and 'village pond' at the junction of Monks Drive and Links Road. Alterations and development have been strictly controlled since 1969, when the Estate was declared a Conservation Area.