The Lawn Attached Walls and Terrace
THE LAWN ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACE, 1-36, MARK HALL NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271496
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn Attached Walls and Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAWN ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACE, 1-36, MARK HALL NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271496
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Lawn Attached Walls and Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAWN ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACE, 1-36, MARK HALL NORTH
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:
- THE LAWN ATTACHED WALLS AND TERRACE, 1-36, MARK HALL NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Harlow (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 46707 11230
Details
TL 41 SE HARLOW MARK HALL NORTH
973/2/10005 Nos. 1-36
The lawn, attached walls
And terrace
GV II
Ten storey block of flats, attached walls and terrace. 1950-51, by Frederick Gibberd. Irregular trapezoid plan, with tapering circulation core, angled wings and gently convex south front. There are two one-bed flats and two bedsitters on each floor (four bedsits on the ground floor) with the projecting ends of each wing used to secure a south-facing balcony for each apartment, and the living rooms of the flats also have supplementary east or west facing windows. The grouped bathrooms and kitchens on the east and west flanks account for the regular pattern of four small square windows on each elevation, while the balconies and recesses are used to throw the centre panel of the curved south front, in light buff brick, into bold relief. A warm red brick was used as the main cladding material of the reinforced concrete structure, unusually laid as a solid 14" wall in double stretcher bond. This is indicative of the care and subtlety of the overall design, which represents the best of British housing design of the early 1950s. The block has retained its original character and although the original metal windows have been replaced in UPVC this has not harmed the integrity of the building. Attached terracing around the east side and attached wall to the north, providing transition to low block. Interiors not of special interest.
The Lawn was the first residential tower block in Britain and received a Ministry of Health Housing medal in 1952.
Listing NGR: TL4670711230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472019
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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