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Latitude: 51.4935 / 51°29'36"N
Longitude: -0.1308 / 0°7'50"W
OS Eastings: 529861
OS Northings: 178828
OS Grid: TQ298788
Mapcode National: GBR GL.TS
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PQ7G
Plus Code: 9C3XFVV9+9M
Entry Name: Tothill House
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357499
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422652
ID on this website: 101357499
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: House
TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PAGE STREET, SW1
105/13 (south side)
5.2.70 Tothill House
G.V. II
Tenement courtyard block of flats, 1928-30; consultant
Sir Edwin Lutyens; part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor
Estate. Grey brick and white rendered chequerboard external elevations
with grey brick and rendered access galleries to courtyard elevations,
spare stone dressings, concealed roofs. Stripped Georgian style, with
decorative details confined to entrance bay. This block has a symmetrical
front to Page Street and long courtyard flank ranges, that to west
extending through to Vincent Street q.v., enclosing deep rectangular
courtyard. 6 storeys to Page Street and to returns with 5 storeys to
extension through to Vincent Street. Page Street front has central broad
recess, blind apart from central stair lights, flanked by shallow wings
each 4 windows wide but leaving one blind bay as a rendered panel in
chequerboard. Central channelled pier entrance, to stairs, with archivolt
arch under open pediment and stepped stone parapet above, set in built out
ashlar screen wall; 4 carved stone escutcheon panels above. Flush framed
glazing bar sashes in chequerboard. Parapet copings finish off the
facades. The flank ranges and 4-window end to Vincent Street are similar.
An imaginative Lutyens treatment of a standard LCC type of housing block.
N.B. for associated lodge see No. 14 Vincent Street.
Listing NGR: TQ2988078824
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