GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK)

GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK), ERASMUS STREET SW1

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289867
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK)
Statutory Address:: GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK), ERASMUS STREET SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289867
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK)
Statutory Address 1:: GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK), ERASMUS STREET 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:: GAINSBOROUGH HOUSE (SOUTH BLOCK), ERASMUS STREET 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 29868 78548

Details

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1 105/33 Gainsborough House 5.2.70 (south block) G.V. II LCC housing estate block of flats. 1897-1902 one of the first estates by the LCC 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 some slight stone dressings, slate roofs. Humane Arts and Crafts socialist housing design inspired by Philip Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer with "Queen Anne" features, all executed to high standards.One of 2 blocks of 5-storey pavilions with 4 storeys and steep mansarded attic in between, forming an L plan with common courtyard behind. 12-window ranges with 2 pavilion hipped roof breaks. Entrances in courtyard elevations. Segmental arched glazing bar sashes with exposed box frames, grouped to express interior distribution. Part of a symmetrical composition with Hogarth House and Reynolds House q.v. (c.f. Boundary Street Estate, Tower Hamlets). A Revolution in London Housing; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ2986778549

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Legacy System number:: 209696
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.