Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW FLASK WALK
798-1/26/457 (North side)
20/08/86 New Court Nos.1-30 (consec)

GV II

Block of 30 artisans' flats. 1854. Built for philanthropic
solicitor Hugh Jackson; architect unknown. Yellow stock brick
with red brick dressings; continuous plain brick sill bands to
upper floors and rusticated brick quoins at angles and
articulating central bays. Slate pitched roof with projecting
bracketed eaves and tall slab chimney-stacks.
5 storeys. 12 windows. Recessed open stone staircases with
landing balconies between windows 2 and 3, 6 and 7, 10 and 11.
Cambered arches to windows; transom and mullion casements to
windows flanking stairs and sashes to those between.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the second earliest surviving example of
artisans' flats, for the "deserving poor" in regular
employment, predating the foundation of the Peabody Trust and
the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company. The earliest
surviving block of this kind is the Streatham Street Buildings
(now Parnell House), (qv). Hugh Jackson was the father of
architect TG Jackson.

Listing NGR: TQ2648685795

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406916

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair