Description

IN the entry for:- 86/40 & 94/11 PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, SW7 24.9.81 Albert Court GV II The description shall be amended to read: Large, purpose-built block of mansion flats. 1890-c1900 by Frederick Hemings, succeeded by R.J. Worley. Faced in red brick with horizontal stone bands and dressings. Slated hipped roofs with tall brick and stone slab stacks and finials. Main western facade of 7 storeys and semi-basement. D-shaped plan, the north and east facades following the crescent line of the former Royal Horticultural Society's Garden; interior light wells with tiers of open arcaded linking bridges, replicating the ground floor corridor, make possible the grand plan form of the individual flats. Long main western facade with 3 centre bays projecting and projecting bays at angles. Central stone entrance surround of paired columns flanking a round-arched entrance and supporting a balustrade fronting a channelled stone lunette at 2nd floor level. Above this, at 4th floor a balustraded balcony with projecting round-arched portico on attached columns sheltering the 4th and 5th floors supporting the 6th floor which has an attic storey above the roofline. Flanking the central bays, single bays at 3rd floor with cast iron balconies and 2 floors above of canted bay windows. Most ground and first floor windows segmental arched with gauged brick heads and aprons. Other floors segmental and flat arched, some with stone architraves. Glazing bars to top lights only. Other facades in similar style. South-eastern and south-western corners have conical roofed turrets; north-eastern corner denoted by a full height rectangular bay and rectangular boiler chimney stack. South facade with outer bays having grand stone paired balustraded balconies with Corinthian columns through 4 floors, linked across central bays with balcony at lst floor level. The curved north/east elevation has continuous balustraded balconies at 1st and 2nd floor levels, with the entrances marked by a ovolo section attic roof. 2nd floor windows pedimented. Chief internal features are the corridor running through the building from east to west, the mahogany and iron balustrading to the staircases and landings to their full height, and the principal reception rooms, with original plasterwork detailing. Albert Court is of significant group value, due to its relationship, as part of the masterplan for the area, with the Royal Albert Hall, the Memorial to the 1851 Exhibition and Albert Hall Mansions, all undertaken under the auspices of the 1851 Commissioners and their architectural advisors, including Norman Shaw and Alfred Waterhouse. It is also significant in echoing the original plan form of the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Layouts. This mansion block was originally conceived by the freeholders, the 1851 Commissioners, as the first stage of a larger private development involving the erection of 4 blocks of flats on either side of Prince Consort Road, flanking the Royal Albert Hall to the north and the Royal College of Music to the south. Building began on Albert Court in 1890 to the designs of Frederick Hemings but, following the collapse of developer George Newman's backers, the liberator Building Society, in 1892 and the death of Hemings in 1894, the building had only reached 3rd floor level; Albert Court was leased for completion to the Albert Court Syndicate and finished to R.J. Worley's designs between 1896 and 1900. Survey of London, Vol. XXXVIII The Builder, 4 October 1890 & 8 August 1891 The Architect, 8 & 15 March l901 and 11 & 18 November 1904.

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86/40 CITY OF WESTMINSTER PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, SW7 94/11 Albert Court 24.9.81 GV II Block of mansion flats. Circa 1890. By Frederick Hemings. Red brick with elaborate stonework bands and dressings. Six storeys. A very large block with surface broken by tiled balconies, alcoves, oriels, turrets etc. Tall chimney stacks a feature. Chief internal feature is a corridor running through the building from east to west. Design approved on behalf of the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners by Alfred Waterhouse. Included for group value only.

Listing NGR: TQ2760279732

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