TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE

TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230895
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE
Statutory Address:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230895
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE
Statutory Address 1:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
Statutory Address 2:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, MILLBANK ESTATE SW1

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TURNER HOUSE, MILLBANK ESTATE, HERRICK STREET SW1
Statutory Address:: TURNER 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 29942 78591

Details

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HERRICK STREET, SW1 105/35 5.2.70 Turner 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 south 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 south end. Camber arched pent-roofed recessed porches to courtyard elevation. Segmental arched glazing bar sashes with exposed box frames, tripartite and quadripartite on ground floor, grouped to express interior distribution. Dormers above flat eaves between gables. Stringcourse over ground floor. The block balances its twin, Ruskin 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: TQ2994278591

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Beattie, S, A Revolution in London Housing

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.