Sassoon House
SASSOON HOUSE, ST MARYS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385862
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sassoon House
- Statutory Address:
- SASSOON HOUSE, ST MARYS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385862
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sassoon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SASSOON HOUSE, ST MARYS 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:
- SASSOON HOUSE, ST MARYS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35259 76494
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3576 ST MARY'S ROAD 636-1/12/725 (East side) Sassoon House
II
Block of flats. 1934. By E Maxwell Fry; interior arrangements in collaboration with Elizabeth Denby. Outer walls of concrete with cork insulation inside. 2 rows of stanchions down the spine of the building form the main supports, the beams projecting as cantilevers to either side; floors suspended between these beams. The walls have shallow foundations, the main weight of the structure being carried on the stanchions. The concrete is reinforced. Roof parapeted, recently recovered. STYLE: International Modern PLAN: rectangular in plan. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys; projecting, glazed stair tower to the north, 6 storeys providing access to roof. Continuous balconies to north from which each flat entered; recessed balconies and strip windows to the south; projecting balconies to end bays. Spur wall with words R.E.SASSOON HOUSE enclosing parking area to north. All windows are flat-arched. Recent alterations to original glazing and parapet. Horseman in red, black and white vitrolite to stair hall, designed by Hans Feibusch. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: conceived as part of a larger housing complex to be centred on the Pioneer Health Centre, now Southwark Adult Education Institute, St Mary's Road (qv), and partly funded by charitable donations from Lady Sassoon; these working-class flats were intended to be self-financing. Notices in the architectural press at the time of completion praised the planning and in particular what were considered to be 'substantial living rooms', each of which opens onto a balcony that was intended as a sheltered play area for children. Unusually each kitchen was fitted with standard units and a combination heater/cooking stove; each flat had a separate bathroom at a time when baths were usually located in the kitchen. An important early instance of working-class housing in a Modernist idiom. (Architect's Journal, 26 April 1934; Architect and Building News, 23 November 1934).
Listing NGR: TQ3525976494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architect and Building News in 23 November, (1934)
Architects Journal in 26 April, (1934)
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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