Stephen Taylor Architects has completed a project to deliver seven new council houses for Hackney council on a tight corner site in Stoke Newington.

The four-storey homes, most of which have frontages just 3.5m wide, replace a previous low-rise council block on the corner of Barbauld Road and Harcome Road. The project is named Aikin Villas in a nod to the three-storey Aikin Court block that it replaces.

Taylor said the new homes – all but one of which front Barbauld Road  – were unusually narrow when compared to their existing neighbours, and noted that properties’ floorplans were flipped in a way that placed their main living spaces at the back and the kitchens at the front.

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