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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084887

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)