BOURNE ESTATE (SOUTHERN PART); FORMERLY UNION BUILDINGS ESTATE NIGEL HOUSE 1-71, LANEY HOUSE 1-72, KIRKEBY HOUSE 1-45, BUCKRIDGE HOUSE 1-30

11, 11A AND 12, PORTPOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379284
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: BOURNE ESTATE (SOUTHERN PART); FORMERLY UNION BUILDINGS ESTATE NIGEL HOUSE 1-71, LANEY HOUSE 1-72, KIRKEBY HOUSE 1-45, BUCKRIDGE HOUSE 1-30
Statutory Address:: 11, 11A AND 12, PORTPOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379284
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: BOURNE ESTATE (SOUTHERN PART); FORMERLY UNION BUILDINGS ESTATE NIGEL HOUSE 1-71, LANEY HOUSE 1-72, KIRKEBY HOUSE 1-45, BUCKRIDGE HOUSE 1-30
Statutory Address 1:: 11, 11A AND 12, PORTPOOL LANE
Statutory Address 2:: 51-75, LEATHER LANE
Statutory Address 3:: BOURNE ESTATE (SOUTHERN PART); FORMERLY UNION BUILDINGS ESTATE, LEATHER LANE
Statutory Address 4:: NIGEL HOUSE 1-71, LANEY HOUSE 1-72, KIRKEBY HOUSE 1-45, BUCKRIDGE HOUSE 1-30, LEATHER LANE

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:: 11, 11A AND 12, PORTPOOL LANE
Statutory Address:: 51-75, LEATHER LANE
Statutory Address:: BOURNE ESTATE (SOUTHERN PART); FORMERLY UNION BUILDINGS ESTATE, LEATHER LANE
Statutory Address:: NIGEL HOUSE 1-71, LANEY HOUSE 1-72, KIRKEBY HOUSE 1-45, BUCKRIDGE HOUSE 1-30, LEATHER LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31234 81892

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW LEATHER LANE 798-1/102/1770 Nos.51-75 (Odd)

GV II

See under: Bourne Estate (southern part); formerly Union Buildings Estate LEATHER LANE.

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW LEATHER LANE 798-1/102/1770 (West side) Bourne Estate (southern part); formerly Union Buildings Estate

GV II

Includes: Nigel House 1-71, Laney House 1-72, Kirkeby House 1-45, Buckridge House 1-30 LEATHER LANE. Includes: Nos.11, 11A AND 12 PORTPOOL LANE. Includes: Nos.51-75 LEATHER LANE. Housing estate built by the London County Council. 1905-9. Designed by LCC Architect's Department (chief assistant for scheme EH Parkes, under WE Riley). Elevations of yellow and red bricks with some blue and glazed bricks. Portions of elevations towards Leather Lane and Portpool Lane stuccoed. Brick chimneys, slated roofs. Stone string courses, parapets and segmental arches. Concrete open stairs and balconies with iron railings. Wooden sash and casement windows. Free Classical style, with Arts and Crafts touches, developing the idiom established by the LCC Boundary Street and Millbank Estates in a formal direction. EXTERIOR: 5-storey flats with balcony access; some portions with sixth storey in roof. Enclosed layout, with Kirkeby and Buckridge Houses in parallel on a north-south axis behind frontage. Open courtyard (formerly with crazy paving and cobbles) between Kirkeby House and Laney House. Laney House and Nigel House form a continuous perimeter along Leather Lane and Portpool Lane respectively, the latter parallel with Redman House on north side of Portpool Lane (see Clerkenwell Road, Nos 87-121, Bourne Estate, northern part (qv). Some later alterations. Laney House: elevation to Leather Lane with shopfronts between granite piers on ground storey. Upper portions with brick quoins and alternating between 3 and 4 full storeys with deep cornices, the centres of the 3 lower portions having rubbed brick pilasters with Ionic capitals rising to triangular pediments (two removed after war damage). Dormers in roof. Curved corner between Leather Lane and Portpool Lane with giant pilasters in stucco running through upper storeys. Rear elevation with ground storey projecting, terminated by high parapet wall with chequered brickwork pattern; the windows at this level now filled in. Balconied elevations above and complex roof line. Kirkeby and Buckridge Houses: similar in design, with plain brick elevations in one direction having slightly projecting

ends with triangular pediments and centres with segmental pediments, both with quoins; rear elevations irregular, with open stairs and balconies and some distinctive glazed-brick entrances towards Laney House. Nigel House: long elevation to Portpool Lane, aligned with Redman House on north side of Portpool Lane and identical in design, with solid ground and first storeys of channelled brickwork and alternating sections of plain brickwork and giant pilasters above. Continuous moulded parapet, and dormer windows in roof. Rear with quoined projections and broad triangular pediments over arched entrances, open stairs and balconies, and angled projection through 4 storeys near west end of group. INTERIORS not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: listed as part of the last of the 3 major centre-city housing estates built by the LCC before the First World War, with a different layout and approach from Boundary Street Estate (Tower Hamlets) and Millbank Estate (Westminster). A significant precursor in form and style of inter-war housing estates throughout Britain, and influential on tenement housing throughout Europe. This southern portion of the estate was a slum-clearance scheme, conceived and probably designed before the northern portion but built later. Forms a group with northern part of Bourne Estate, Clerkenwell Road (qv).

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW LEATHER LANE 798-1/102/1770 Nigel House 1-71, Laney House 1-72, Kirkeby House 1-45, Buckridge House 1-30

GV II

See under: Bourne Estate (southern part); formerly Union Buildings Estate LEATHER LANE.

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW PORTPOOL LANE 798-1/102/1770 Nos.11, 11A AND 12

GV II

See under: Bourne Estate (southern part); formerly Union Buildings Estate LEATHER LANE.

Listing NGR: TQ3123481892

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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.