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Where Turner Drive meets the top of Meadway Close, there are three particularly grand neo-Georgian houses. Heath House, by Soutar (probably designed by W T Powell), has three arches in bright red brick to the entrance and an impressive coved cornice to the roof. Number 11 Constable Close was designed in Soutar's office by Badcock, with bright red pilasters and projecting wings, the garden side having a round-arched loggia; curiously, the client was an architect, Henry Tanner Jnr. who designed most of the rebuilt Regent Street - he decided he knew too little about domestic architecture to do his own house. Number 1 Meadway Close (1910) is by Arnold Mitchell, an excellent country house architect of the Lutyens generation who lived at Harrow and here produced an astringent contrast between purple brick walls and bright red panelled pilasters, the Georgian doorcase being picked out in white. Number 3 Meadway Close (The Ship - there is a polished copper ship on the front door) was designed for himself in 1909 by the architect J M W Halley, who was killed in 1918; he was a distinguished architectural historian and contributor to The Architectural Review. Numbers 5-7 are a pleasant pair with sloping gables by B H Webb and H S East (1914). The other houses in Meadway Close are a local builder's version of Parker and Unwin's dark brick style (with brick mullions to the windows) - there are similar houses on the north side of Constable Close.
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