Description

TQ 3078 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER JOHN ISLIP STREET, SWl
106/7
Millais House, Millbank
Estate
5.2.70
G.V. II
LCC housing estate block of flats, 1899-1900, one of the first two to be
built in this most significant of the first LCC estates by the Architects'
Department housing section under Owen Fleming, and, more particularly in
this case,R. Minton Taylor who was probably responsible for the estate
layout radiating from a rectangular public garden. Red brick with slight
stone dressings, tiled roofs. Humane, Arts and Crafts socialist housing
design inspired by Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" and
Northern European features, all executed to a high standard. Angled,
slightly asymmetrical, butterfly plan block at right angles to John Islip
Street with elevations to courtyard and south to Bulinga Street and splayed
to Herrick Street. 5 storey gabled end pavilions and canted angle
developed as engaged faceted-pyramid-roof tower, 4 storeys and attic in
between them. 2-window wide end pavilions, that at John Islip Street end
with 2 windows grouped in very shallow angled bay with small secondary
lights to right; 4-window wide links and 3 windows to "tower".
Cornice-hooded entrances in courtyard elevation. Changeful fenestration
expressing interior distribution with segmental arched flush framed glazing
bar casements; stone dressed windows to ground floor of "tower" feature and
to end pavilions; 2 oculi flank ground floor of the "tower". Grouped
dormers above overhanging eaves. The block balances its twin Leighton
House in the group south of the garden (c.f. Boundary Street Estate; Tower
Hamlets)
A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ3001778675

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080601

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hertfordshire (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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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living