Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PAGE STREET, SW1
105/5 (north side)
5.2.70 Bennett House, Grosvenor
Estate (with lodge and
gate piers)
G.V. II
Tenement courtyard block of flats. 1928-30; consultant
Sir Edwin Lutyens; part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor
Estate. Grey brick and white rendered chequerboard external elevations
with grey brick and rendered access galleries to courtyard elevations,
spare stone dressings, concealed roofs. Stripped Georgian style. 6
storeys. 4-window wide ends to street with long returns enclosing
rectangular courtyard and single storey former lodges, square on plan,
flanking courtyard entrance with gate piers. Doorways on ground floor and
galleries of courtyard elevations. Flush framed glazing bar sashes.
Parapet copings finish off facades. The lodges each have 1 window, and an
oeil de boeuf in link, with pyramidal roofs; they are built out with gate
piers at right angles to street ends of long sides of block. An
imaginative Lutyens treatment of a standard LCC type of housing block.

Listing NGR: TQ2993678908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318946

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)