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Latitude: 51.4906 / 51°29'26"N
Longitude: -0.13 / 0°7'47"W
OS Eastings: 529923
OS Northings: 178504
OS Grid: TQ299785
Mapcode National: GBR GM.ZV
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PSMP
Plus Code: 9C3XFVRC+62
Entry Name: Lawrence House, Millbank Estate
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1216809
English Heritage Legacy ID: 411462
ID on this website: 101216809
Location: Victoria, Westminster, London, SW1P
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Vincent Square
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Stephen Rochester Row
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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