Golden Lane Estate
Bayer House
Bayer House is a terrace block, with one end forming a ‘T’ with Stanley Cohen House on the Golden Lane side of the estate.
The flats run right through the building from front to back, and they face south at the front and north at the back. It provides [ ] levels of maisonettes. There are [ ] flats over [ ] storeys, and each flat is on two floors.
This house looks southwards over the attractive garden court between Stanley Cohen House and Bowater House, and northwards towards the equally attractive lawn in front of Basterfield House.
There is an attractive sunken garden area in the front which have been made all the more attractive by residents’ pots and plants.
The lowest level of flats are reached from the garden area by going up a series of steps which wouldn’t look out of place in an Escher picture. These take you up to what seems like first floor level but is really street level for the rest of the estate.
There are three main levels marked by the attractively-sized, white concrete balconies which run along the front of the building. In between are the two storeys of living space.
At the back of the building is a wide paved area at street level running from Golden Lane, through an entrance under Stanley Cohen House, towards Crescent House and Goswell Road.
The ground floor flats have entrances in the sunken garden area in the front. Upper flats have entrances at the back with stairs leading upwards from entrances at each end. The ground floor flats have no back balcony. The first, third and fifth floors do, but second and fourth floors are access corridors to the back entrances.
