Chamberlain House Chamberlain House Including Shops
CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE INCLUDING SHOPS, 44-58, PHOENIX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139057
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Chamberlain House Chamberlain House Including Shops
- Statutory Address:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE INCLUDING SHOPS, 44-58, PHOENIX ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139057
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Chamberlain House Chamberlain House Including Shops
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE INCLUDING SHOPS, 44-58, PHOENIX ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE, 86-100, CHALTON STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE, OSSULSTON STREET
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:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE INCLUDING SHOPS, 44-58, PHOENIX ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE, 86-100, CHALTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHAMBERLAIN HOUSE, OSSULSTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29750 82956
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2982NE CHALTON STREET
798-1/89/1312 Nos.86-100 (Even)
13/12/96 Chamberlain House
GV II
See under: Nos.44-58 Chamberlain House including shops PHOENIX
ROAD.
CAMDEN
TQ2982NE OSSULSTON STREET
798-1/89/1312 Chamberlain House
13/12/96
GV II
See under: Nos.44-58 Chamberlain House including shops PHOENIX
ROAD.
CAMDEN
TQ2982NE PHOENIX ROAD
798-1/89/1312 (South side)
13/12/96 Nos.44-58 (Even)
Chamberlain House including shops
GV II
Includes: Nos.86-100 Chamberlain House CHALTON STREET.
Includes: Chamberlain House OSSULSTON STREET.
Block of council flats, partly with shops at ground floor
level, forming part of the Ossulston Estate; frontages to
Phoenix Road, Ossulston Street and Chalton Street. 1927-9. To
the designs of the LCC Architect's department under G Topham
Forrest. Loadbearing brickwork rendered with roughcast,
channelled to ground floor to appear as stone; reinforced
concrete balconies. Pantiled hipped roofs with tall
chimney-stacks.
PLAN: courtyard plan with entrance from Phoenix Road.
EXTERIOR: Phoenix Road frontage of central entrance flanked by
similar 2 storey and attic pavilion blocks having 3 tripartite
sashes each and hipped roofs with dormers and overhanging
eaves. To either side the row continues with 4 storey blocks
having ground floor shops and tripartite sashes to upper
floors; other street facades in similar style. Opposite
entrance in courtyard the southern block has balconies
designed to make the voids above them read as holes punched in
the building; central rectangles with a projecting corbelled
balcony with shields to the top floor flanked by long
rectangular voids grouped in 3s to each floor. Round-arched
arcaded ground floor with central opening approached by curved
steps. A similar design continues to the western bays.
INTERIORS: not inspected. This complex forms a group with
Levita House, Ossulston Street, (qv) and the southern block of
Walker House, Phoenix Road including The Cock Tavern (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: despite policy to house as many Londoners as
possible on outlying cottage estates pressure of waiting lists
and urgency of slum clearance forced Cecil Levita, Chairman of
the LCC Housing Committee to review the situation. The
Ossulston Estate is the most important inner-city estate of
the inter-war period, representing the most considered attempt
by the LCC to inject new thinking into inner-city housing
estates. It was influenced in particular by Viennese housing
models and was innovative in terms of layout and elevation.
The foundation stone of Chamberlain House was laid by Neville
Chamberlain, then Minister of Health.
Listing NGR: TQ2975082956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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