Description

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TQ 3382
8/71

BOUNDARY ESTATE
ARNOLD CIRCUS E2
Marlow House

GV
II
1899. Red brick, glazed on ground floor, above, red brick with orange brick banding, increasing in width to top of building. Slate roof. Four storeys and dormers and one in gables (five and attic facing Arnold Circus). Five bays at ground floor level of which four sash windows are under segmental arches. Door with semi-circular arch, chequered tympanum and narrow flanking windows with pilasters. Canted oriels from first to third floor. Between oriels, recessed vertical panel with bipartite sash windows under segmental arches with double stucco keystones. Fourth floor, bays separated by brick pilasters, windows with semi-circular arches and stuccoed tympana. Large white stucco sill band separates one bay fifth floor. Bipartite sash window. Steep gable above. Facade to Calvert Avenue seventeen windows, three sets of gables. Ground floor has contemporary shop fronts set under a common cornice.

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2.

Listing NGR: TQ3356882581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318404

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)