Hallfield Estate

The Hallfield Estate is a post-war housing estate, built on a 17 acre site which was originally laid out with brick and stucco terraces and villas, but was cleared following war damage.

The estate was built between 1951-59 by the architectural practice Drake and Lasdun and comprises fifteen blocks and a primary school. It was designed as a deliberate contrast to the architectural fabric of nineteenth century Bayswater and was intended as a radical model for the borough of Paddington's post-war re-housing programme.

The ten and six storey blocks are laid out on a grid at 45 degrees to the surrounding roads. They are set in an attractive landscape setting, which includes chestnut, sycamore, mountain ash and mulberry trees and also magnolias and catalpas.

The conservation area was first designated in 1990 and extended in 1996.