Waterlow Court was built by the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company and opened in 1909. The company had been established by Sir Sydney Waterlow in the 1860s.
This remarkable set of buildings exhibits an Arts and Crafts spirit, organised around a courtyard with an arcaded cloister.
The round-arched arcades which create a ’cloister’ effect and which serve as a walkway to ground-floor flats.
Accommodation comprised of three, four or five room flats, simply designed with plank doors and open fireplaces. The originally communal dining area was in the gabled block to the rear of the courtyard.
The bicycle shed exhibited the architectural treatment of the new structures, used by women who exemplified the modern Edwardian spirit.
