Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PAGE STREET, SW1
105/3 (north side)
5.2.70 Abady House with lodges,
Nos. 38 and 40,
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 and long returns enclosing rectangular courtyard.
Doorways to courtyard,ground floor and galleries. Flush framed glazing bar
sashes in chequerboard and similar sashes to courtyard elevations. Parapet
copings finish off the facades. The square lodges flanking the courtyard
entrance (Nos. 38 and 40) 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: TQ2983278904

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318947

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