Coleridge House
COLERIDGE HOUSE, CHURCHILL GARDENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271487
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Coleridge House
- Statutory Address:
- COLERIDGE HOUSE, CHURCHILL GARDENS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271487
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Coleridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLERIDGE HOUSE, CHURCHILL GARDENS ROAD
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:
- COLERIDGE HOUSE, CHURCHILL GARDENS ROAD
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 29261 78044
Details
TQ 2978 SW WESTMINSTER CHURCHILL GARDENS ROAD
(North side)
1900/109/10107
Coleridge House
GV II
Block of 72 flats. Design won in competition 1946, built 1947-51; Powell and Moya architects for Westminster City Council, Parker Morris town clerk. Monolithic reinforced concrete frame clad in buff bricks over blue brick plinth, though floor slabs exposed and painted. Nine storeys and basement; flat roofs. Large flats arranged in pairs off four projecting stairwells with lifts tucked behind. Three-bedroom flats on ground to seventh floors, set in mirrored pairs with canted balconies. One- and two-bedroom flats on eighth floor set back behind access gallery and long private terrace. Wired glass to fronts of balconies and landings, the rendered walls to the rear of those originally brightly painted. The projecting stairwells with painted concrete stairs and straight steel balusters, and full-height metal glazing to sides. All windows to flats renewed in UPVC in 1990, replicating the original pattern save for extra central transom. The alteration has not affected the character of the blocks. Original pattern doors with upper half glazed. Projecting lift machinery and water tanks set within circular roof-top drums which are a distinctive feature of the estate. Short side elevation facing south has tiny two-light windows not found on the other blocks. Interiors not of special interest. Original name signs. Churchill Gardens was the most ambitious housing scheme of the 1940s, and the first built following an international competition. Phase IA, comprising Chaucer, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley Houses with Britain's first district heating system, won a Festival of Britain Award in 1951, and the whole estate won two Civic Trust Awards in 1962. 'The tall early blocks ... are a striking example of the simplificatio of tall building design by minimizing the expression of the horizontal layers of the section and accenting the continuity of such features as stair and lift towers which use the full height' wrote the American critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock in praise of the estate in 1953. Designed by architects aged only 24 and 25, the generous flats and carefully laid-out grounds and services set new standards of public housing as a model for the post-war era at the maximum permitted density of 200 persons per acre. Churchill Gardens have been celebrated since the first block, Chaucer House, opened: in 1952 the Architects' Journal considered that it was 'deservedly becoming the most highly praised example of high density development in the country'; while in 1981 Lord Esher called it 'the most successful high-density project in London.
Listing NGR: TQ2926178044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Esher, L, A Broken Wave The Rebuilding of England 1940-1980, (1981), 105
Architects Journal in 2 October, (1952), 406-14
Architects Journal in 7 December, (1950), 481-92
Architectural Review in September, (1953), 176-184
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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