Description

TQ 2978 NE 'CITY OF WESTMINSTER VINCENT STREET, SW1 105/22 Princess Mary House G.V. II Tenement block of flats with rear courtyard. 1928-30; consultant Sir Edwin, Lutyens; part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor Estate. Grey brick and white rendered chequerboard external elevations with grey brick and rendered access galleries to rear shallow courtyard elevations, spare stone dressings, concealed roofs. Stripped Georgian style with decorative details confined to entrance bay. Symmetrical front to Vincent Street. 6 storeys. Broad central recess, blind apart from central stairlights, flanked by shallow projecting ranges each of 4 windows wide but leaving one blind bay as a rendered chequer panel in the chequerboard. 6-window returns and 4-window south ends to shallow wings of rear courtyard. Central channelled pier entrance, to stairs, with archivolt arch under open pediment and stepped parapet above, set in built out ashlar screen wall; 4 carved stone escutcheon panels above. Flush framed glazing bar sashes in chequerboard. Parapet copings finish off the facades. An imaginative Lutyens treatment of a standard L.C.C. type of housing block.

Listing NGR: TQ2987778764

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