Ruskin House, Millbank Estate
RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066652
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskin House, Millbank Estate
- Statutory Address:
- RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066652
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskin House, Millbank Estate
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, MILLBANK ESTATE SW1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- RUSKIN HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, MILLBANK ESTATE SW1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29984 78677
Details
TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HERRICK STREET, SWl 105/31 5.2.70 Ruskin House, Millbank Estate 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 slight stone dressings, tiled roofs. Humane, Arts and Crafts socialist housing design inspired by Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" and Northern European features, all executed to high standards. A long block with splayed north end following street line, and flanking St. Oswulf Street axis. 4 storeys and attic. Slightly asymmetrical, 22 windows wide, with 5 storey central and terminal pavilion gabled breaks and similar 16 window splayed north end. Cornice-hooded recessed porches to courtyard elevation. Segmental arched glazing bar sashes in exposed box frames, tripartite and quadripartite on ground floor, grouped to express interior distribution. Dormers above flat eaves between gabled breaks. Stringcourse over ground floor. The block balances its twin, Turner House, on the other side of St. Oswulf Street. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets.) A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.
Listing NGR: TQ2998478677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beattie, S, A Revolution in London Housing, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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