Description

TQ 2978 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER JOHN ISLIP STREET, SWl 105/41; 110/7 Lawrence House, Millbank Estate 5.2.70 G.V. II LCC housing estate block of flats. 1897-1902, part of one of the first and most significant of the 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 high standards. Slightly asymmetrical, shallow E plan block with rear entrance courtyard, at right angles to John Islip Street and with front to Cureton Street. 5 storey gabled-end pavilion-wings and 4 storeys and attic between, and with on the courtyard side a 5 storey centrepiece with parapeted finish to its outermost bays. Central angle buttress porch with steep pent slate roof and camber arched opening, to changefully designed centrepiece of courtyard elevation. Segmental arched flush framed glazing bar sashes with varied grouping expressing interior distribution. Dormers above overhanging eaves. The block balances its twin Maclise House in the group north of the garden. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets.) A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ2992378504

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