Cambridge 2000: Lansdowne Road: 12
In 1958 the owner, Pat Merton, a physiologist, purchased the
building plot and liked the style of the neighbouring
Shawms,
so he decided he wanted the same architect, Justin
Blanco White, to design his house, but since she
was by then living in Edinburgh she enlisted the help of
Cambridge architect David Croghan. It turned out that
Merton had his own ideas about how to proceed and ended
up doing much of the design and build work himself, with
help from family and friends. And the layout itself
seems to have been inspired more by an open-plan house
he had visited in California than by Shawms.
Nobody else ever occupied this house. It was demolished
in 2003 as part of the condition of sale to new owners,
who decided to replace it with a
new house
designed by Donald Insall Associates.
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