Timelessly brilliant houses in Spitalfields, London.

Timelessly brilliant houses in Spitalfields, London.
The state of new English domestic architecture that pops up on the edges of countryside lanes seems to be of no better quality than that described by Aldous Huxley in his book “Crome Yellow”. He writes… “In the suburbs of our cities you may see, reduplicated in endless rows, studiedly quaint imitations and adaptations of the village hovel. Poverty, ignorance, and a limited range of materials produced the hovel, which possesses undoubtedly, in suitable surroundings, its own "as it were titanic" charm. We now employ our wealth, our technical knowledge, our rich variety of materials for the purpose of building millions of imitation hovels in totally unsuitable surroundings. Could imbecility go further?'”