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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080604

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