40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246821
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246821
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
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:
- 40-57, LAMMAS GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lewisham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34589 72466
Details
TQ 3472 LEWISHAM LAMMAS GREEN
(North side)
779/29/10074
Nos.40-57 (Consecutive)
GV II
Block of eighteen flats. 1955-7 by Donald McMorran of Farquharson and McMorran, with Peter Nuttall as assistant, for the Corporation of the City of London. Brick construction, faced in hand-made Essex bricks, with weatherboarded gables and pantiled roofs. Three storeys, with one- and two-bedroom flats arranged in pairs either side of staircases; the outermost forming a mirrored pair, the central staircase serving entirely two-bedroom flats.
Symmetrical composition, the living rooms at the front with square sash windows having small panes; smaller windows to the staircases and bathrooms under moulded heads with incised voussoirs. The large windows repeated on the sides and the rear elevation (facing Sydenham Hill). Staircase halls entered via arched openings. Six very tall stacks in a roof that is well set back behind high parapets. The interiors not of special interest.
Donald McMorran is slowly becoming recognised as one of the most significant architects to work in a traditional style in the 1950s. What makes him stand out from other traditionalists was his willingness to tackle progressive building types like public housing and schools while sticking to the old values of composition, proportion and texture. This puts him closer to Giles Scott than to, for example, Raymond Erith. He also owed much to Vincent Harris, for whom he worked between 1927 and 1935. This is the smallest but finest of four housing schemes by McMorran, two of them for the City Corporation. The composition of three terraces set round a village green, with views of the North Downs is made the more idyllic by the position of the two blocks of flats as a buffer to the road behind. The density is 57 dwellings per acre, less than the permissible seventy 'so as to establish conditions under which a community with its own continuity and life might be able to flourish.' To judge from the estate's condition, it seems to have done so. The contrast of the flats, notable for their fine brickwork and traditional proportions, with the colourwashed cottages is particularly distinguished.
Listing NGR: TQ3458972466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471975
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 22 November, (1957), 906-908
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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