ABSTRACT
Industrial Sheeld is maybe not the most likely place to nd an estate of middleclass Modernist houses. In the mid-1930s, however, a small group of these houses was erected in the Norton area, a suburban district of south Sheeld. The builder or estate developer was M.J. Gleeson, using the designs of the architect Gareld Mainwaring. The construction company M.J. Gleeson Group was still operative in the early part of the new millennium. The brick-built detached and semidetached houses by Mainwaring were to a standard design, with tower structures for the stairwells projecting above the parapets, see Figs 14.3 and 14.4. These towers gave access to the at roofs. External walls were rendered in white or cream cement. The ground oor had a separate drawing room to the front of the house with a suntrap window in the bay, and a dining room and large kitchen at the back. The kitchen included a built-in larder and china cupboard. All the semis had three bedrooms, and one of the designs gave the back bedroom access to a veranda.
