Landseer House, Millbank Estate
LANDSEER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, JOHN ISLIP STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216791
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Landseer House, Millbank Estate
- Statutory Address:
- LANDSEER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, JOHN ISLIP STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216791
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Landseer House, Millbank Estate
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANDSEER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, JOHN ISLIP STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- LANDSEER 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:
- LANDSEER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, JOHN ISLIP STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- LANDSEER 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 29943 78521
Details
TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER JOHN ISLIP STREET, SW1 105/42 Landseer House, Millbank 5.2.70 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. Human, Arts and Crafts socialist housing design inspired by Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" and Northern European features, all executed to a high standard. Shallow L plan block with north wing at right angles to John Islip Street, with courtyard elevations. 5 storey gabled pavilion wings and 4 storeys and attic between them. Cornice-hooded recessed porches to north courtyard. Segmental arched flush framed glazing bar sashes, tripartite on ground floor, grouped to express interior distribution. Dormers above overhanging eaves. The block balances its twin Mulready House in the group north of the garden. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets). A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.
Listing NGR: TQ2994378521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411463
- 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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