Description

TQ 2978 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER JOHN ISLIP STREET, SW1
105/40
Wilkie House, Millbank
5.2.70 Estate
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 and some rendering, slate roofs. Humane, Arts and Crafts
socialist housing design inspired by Webb, Lethaby, and Smith and Brewer
with "Queen Anne" features, all executed to a high standard. Long
rectangular block with rear courtyard at right angles to John Islip Street
and with front to Cureton Street. 5 storeys. 18 windows wide with
3-window return. Cornice-hood entrances in courtyard elevation. Segmental
arched flush framed glazing bar sashes and the rendered top floor with
close set "weaving shed" casements the fenestration grouped to
express interior distribution. Shallow gable over central break of 6 bays,
the roof hipped with flat eaves and shallow pavilion break to west end.
The block balances its twin Morland House in the group north of the garden.
(c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets).
A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ2990478486

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083670

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