Description

CAMDEN

TQ2982NE CHALTON STREET
798-1/89/1312 Nos.86-100 (Even)
13/12/96 Chamberlain House

GV II

See under: Nos.44-58 Chamberlain House including shops PHOENIX
ROAD.

CAMDEN

TQ2982NE OSSULSTON STREET
798-1/89/1312 Chamberlain House
13/12/96

GV II

See under: Nos.44-58 Chamberlain House including shops PHOENIX
ROAD.

CAMDEN

TQ2982NE PHOENIX ROAD
798-1/89/1312 (South side)
13/12/96 Nos.44-58 (Even)
Chamberlain House including shops

GV II

Includes: Nos.86-100 Chamberlain House CHALTON STREET.
Includes: Chamberlain House OSSULSTON STREET.
Block of council flats, partly with shops at ground floor
level, forming part of the Ossulston Estate; frontages to
Phoenix Road, Ossulston Street and Chalton Street. 1927-9. To
the designs of the LCC Architect's department under G Topham
Forrest. Loadbearing brickwork rendered with roughcast,
channelled to ground floor to appear as stone; reinforced
concrete balconies. Pantiled hipped roofs with tall
chimney-stacks.
PLAN: courtyard plan with entrance from Phoenix Road.
EXTERIOR: Phoenix Road frontage of central entrance flanked by
similar 2 storey and attic pavilion blocks having 3 tripartite
sashes each and hipped roofs with dormers and overhanging
eaves. To either side the row continues with 4 storey blocks
having ground floor shops and tripartite sashes to upper
floors; other street facades in similar style. Opposite
entrance in courtyard the southern block has balconies
designed to make the voids above them read as holes punched in
the building; central rectangles with a projecting corbelled
balcony with shields to the top floor flanked by long
rectangular voids grouped in 3s to each floor. Round-arched
arcaded ground floor with central opening approached by curved
steps. A similar design continues to the western bays.
INTERIORS: not inspected. This complex forms a group with
Levita House, Ossulston Street, (qv) and the southern block of
Walker House, Phoenix Road including The Cock Tavern (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: despite policy to house as many Londoners as
possible on outlying cottage estates pressure of waiting lists
and urgency of slum clearance forced Cecil Levita, Chairman of
the LCC Housing Committee to review the situation. The
Ossulston Estate is the most important inner-city estate of
the inter-war period, representing the most considered attempt
by the LCC to inject new thinking into inner-city housing
estates. It was influenced in particular by Viennese housing
models and was innovative in terms of layout and elevation.
The foundation stone of Chamberlain House was laid by Neville
Chamberlain, then Minister of Health.

Listing NGR: TQ2975082956

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432010

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