Description

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

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)