Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW FROGNAL WAY
798-1/26/542 (North side)
14/05/74 No.9
Sun House

GV II*

Detached house. 1935-6. By Maxwell Fry. Reinforced concrete
walls using wallboard shuttering. Flat roof.
3 storeys and roof terrace. Continuous strip windows; glazing
altered. On a steeply sloping south-facing site the ground
floor right-hand bay being the projecting entrance and garage;
to left, the rear retaining wall and thin steel pilotis
support the 1st floor continuous balcony with tubular steel
railings. 1st floor windows plate glass sliding French
windows; right hand end of balcony, with projecting canopy,
breaks forward over garage and entrance; left hand end with
panel of small glazed lights in end wall and thin steel piloti
supporting a loggia at 2nd floor level, now panelled in. 2nd
floor windows originally sliding, now metal framed casements.
Parapet with tubular rail balustrade to roof terrace with
projecting canopy.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Fry was a founder member of the MARS Group
which did much to forward the cause of the new architecture.
It is a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in the UK.

Listing NGR: TQ2617985543

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sun House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17548595

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover