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

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