A Garden and Three Houses Available to Purchase

This is the story of architect Peter Aldington’s garden and three houses, Turn End, The Turn and Middle Turn. The houses were designed and built as a village housing scheme in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire in the 1960s. The houses, now internationally famous, have been elevated to the status of listed buildings (Grade 2). The site was purchased early in 1963 in Margaret (Peter’s wife) Aldington’s name. Young Peter Aldington, fresh from London County Council Architect’s Department, aimed to build a village housing project which combined “past traditions and modern technology to create homes as refuges from the hurly‐burly of everyday living”....