Flats in 1987.
Charlemont Farm is a housing estate in West Bromwich. It is in the north part of the town, towards the Walsall border.
The Charlemont Farm was the result of a package deal with contractor Gilbert Ash for 604 dwellings in large-panel construction, using the French Tracoba system, approved in 1964, consisted of four 21-storey towers; Blades House, Dugdale House and Roosevelt House, with the fourth, Churchill House, was built on a gap site in the Yew Tree estate, further to the north; as well as two 15-storey slab blocks; Kennedy (now Camberley House) & Marshall House.
The design is largely a repeat of the Pierre Collinet housing estate in Meaux, France, an early show-case of the Tracoba system, built from 1959, and consisting of 6 16-storey slab blocks and 3 23-storey towers; even retaining a similar colour scheme; though internal layouts were adjusted in collaboration with local architects; the maisonettes in the slab blocks are provided with a more conventional layout as compared to the crossover layout of the original, and the towers have balconies added.
Blades House and Dugdale House were both demolished in 1995.
Marshall House was demolished in 2004 and Camberley is now in the in the hands of a private landlord.