Walter Tull House is a new housing development in Tottenham Hale, North London that provides 131 council rent homes and a health centre – with more than 40 GPs. Named after Spur’s first Black footballer, it is one of seven building projects devised for the Heart of Hale masterplan by Related Argent and the London Borough of Haringey. Together they deliver more than 1,000 new homes alongside restaurants, shops and cafés and flexible workspaces for the local community.

The striking red-pink brick development is located a short walk from Tottenham Hale station, a transport hub for bus, underground and rail that includes trains to Stansted airport. It occupies a prominent site, on the fringes of both the Heart of Hale’s emerging high-rise cluster and the low-rise brick-built terraces that stretch northwards towards Spurs' White Hart Lane football ground.

It is formed of three conjoined buildings: a 16-storey building overlooking Down Lane Park; a low-rise L-shaped block (of four and six storeys) facing west and north with a communal rooftop terrace and enclosing a shared, landscaped courtyard, and a south-facing seven-storey block incorporating a retail unit and a three-storey, street level health centre on tree-lined Monument Way.

The main residential entrance, placed at the end of a colonnade along Park View Road, provides access to all homes and the central courtyard via a double height lobby. Accommodation is a mixture of 3-bedroom family homes – duplexes with front gardens – and 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom apartments. All homes are dual aspect while homes located in the lower-rise buildings are deck access.

The sculptural composition and the facades of the three buildings are enhanced by the use of two tones of red-hued facing brick and complementary smooth and textured panels.

Elsewhere, elegantly detailed metal components to window frames and balustrades – inspired by the sawtooth roof of the factory that stood nearby - create engaging, human-scaled architectural ‘moments’ throughout the development.

PTE provided a full planning service and acted as QM for the delivery stages.

Landscape and public realm design is by Adams & Sutherland.