Forest Croft and Taymount Grange

Forest Croft was built in 1937 to designs by Arnold Andre Higuer, on a site previously occupied by a house called The Mount.

It has a steel frame with masonry infill[1] and a rendered finish, flat roof and metal "streamlined" windows.

When built some of the flats comprised two apartments, a large one for the main occupier and a smaller one for the servant.

There were also a restaurant, lounge and "guest rooms", as well as seven tennis courts, a swimming pool and a putting green.

Michael Gambon, television, film and theatre actor, lived in the Forest Croft block for four years during his early to mid twenties.