Owen Hatherley’s excellent article (“British housing seems to be sobering up” Opinion January 18) refers to Cabe-era wonky buildings and wavy roofs giving way to sober, well-considered housing.

Newhall, Harlow, by Alison Brooks Architects

Source: Paul Riddle

Brooks says she took her cue from the black weatherboard barns of Essex

Turning the page, I was confronted by a double-page photograph of a whole group of wonky houses by Alison Brooks Architects at Newhall, Essex (Buildings January 18).

Not only were these visually disturbing, with a raking eaves line, but they show the appalling detail of pitched roofs discharging rainwater down the face of timber cladding, with no gutter.
Ye gods!

Ron Heath
Loughton, Essex

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