Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1 105/25 Reynolds House (south block) 5.2.70 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 some slight stone dressings, slate 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. 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. Dormers in roof. Part of a symmetrical composition with Hogarth House and Gainsborough House q.v. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets).

Listing NGR: TQ2995978740

External Links

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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