A run of 1970s terraced homes in east London has been conferred with grade II-listed status in recognition of its “striking” design.

Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield were commissioned to design 50-56 Ferry Street by Michael and Jenny Barraclough, who were keen to start a self-build community on the Isle of Dogs.

The Barracloughs invited Stout and Litchfield to produce a plan for the site at Ferry Street after meeting Stout at a New Year’s Eve party at the end of the 1960s and originally envisaged a development of up to 44 homes on the plot, immediately across the River Thames from Greenwich. However only four homes – three houses and a flat – were built.

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