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Latitude: 51.491 / 51°29'27"N
Longitude: -0.1308 / 0°7'50"W
OS Eastings: 529868
OS Northings: 178548
OS Grid: TQ298785
Mapcode National: GBR GM.SP
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PS7D
Plus Code: 9C3XFVR9+9M
Entry Name: Gainsborough House (South Block)
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1289867
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209696
ID on this website: 101289867
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 CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1
105/33 Gainsborough House
5.2.70 (south block)
G.V. II
LCC housing estate block of flats. 1897-1902 one of the first estates
by the LCC 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 some slight stone dressings, slate roofs. Humane
Arts and Crafts socialist housing design inspired by Philip Webb, Lethaby
and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" features, all executed to high
standards.One of 2 blocks of 5-storey pavilions with 4 storeys and steep
mansarded attic in between, forming an L plan with common courtyard behind.
12-window ranges with 2 pavilion hipped roof breaks. Entrances in
courtyard elevations. Segmental arched glazing bar sashes with exposed box
frames, grouped to express interior distribution. Part of a symmetrical
composition with Hogarth House and Reynolds House q.v. (c.f. Boundary
Street Estate, Tower Hamlets).
A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.
Listing NGR: TQ2986778549
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