Hogarth House
HOGARTH HOUSE, ERASMUS STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211708
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hogarth House
- Statutory Address:
- HOGARTH HOUSE, ERASMUS STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211708
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hogarth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOGARTH HOUSE, ERASMUS STREET 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:
- HOGARTH HOUSE, ERASMUS STREET 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 29908 78648
Details
TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1 105/30 Hogarth House 5.2.70 G.V. II* LCC housing estate block of flats. 1899-1902 by Spalding and Cross, as the result of a competition held by the Council in conjunction with their Architects' Department housing section development of the Millbank Estate. One of the earliest and most significant of the LCC estates. Red brick with slight stone dressings and some rendering,slate roofs. Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer inspired, humane, socialist Arts and Crafts housing with restrained use of "Queen Anne" and Northern European motifs. Hogarth House is the central block of the radial layout of the estate. Half H plan with polygonal corner turrets and shaped and straight gables. 5 storeys plus a dormered mansard storey. 11 window range with 3 window wings with turrets to inner angles. The main range has doorways, between the narrow and broad through-storey canted bays flanking the centrepice, set back in recessed porches with stone faced splayed sides and pent roofs over, carried on shallow segmental stone arches between the canted bays. Varied fenestration expresses interior distribution with cross-mullioned segmental arched casements above the porches, 2 light casements to the narrow canted bays, small stairlights,and tripartite and single glazing bar sashes to the centre piece and the broader canted bays contained in through-storey, shallow semicircular arched recesses. Parapets with copings, the straight gables set back behind them and with a very large swept shaped gable over the centre. Hogarth House was the first block to be started on site in 1899. A Revolution in London Housinq; Susan Beattie.
Listing NGR: TQ2990878648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209694
- 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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