Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1 105/27 Rossetti 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 and rendered dressings, tiled roofs. Humane, Arts and Crafts socialist housing design inspired by Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" features, all executed to high standards. Flanking central St. Oswulf Street axis. 5 storeys. 18 windows wide with broad centre break and terminal pavilion to St. Oswulf Street. Recessed cornice-hooded porches in courtyard elevation. Segmental arched glazing bar sashes with exposed box frames, grouped to express interior distribution. Top floor rendered with casements. Dormers above flat eaves of hipped roofs. The block balances its symmetrical twin Romney House, on the other side of St. Oswulf Street. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets.) A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ2995478670

External Links

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