BARBICAN ESTATE

Most of its flats are two-storey maisonettes laid out on a scissor plan.

NAMED AFTER

John Bunyan, writer and Baptist preacher (1628–1688). He was the son of a Bedford tinker and became a tinker himself. He never went to school but learnt to read and write at home.

WHERE

It runs east to west on the north podium, the middle of a U with John Trundle Court and Bryer Court. North flats overlook Blake Tower. South flats overlook Beech Gardens.

INSIDE

Maisonettes have paired balconies on levels 2, 3 and 5. A fitness centre sits under the podium, beside a round fountain pool.

WAY IN

Entrance and lift at the Bryer Court end, built over the Fann Street ramp