Cropthorne Court
CROPTHORNE COURT, 20-28, MAIDA VALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Cropthorne Court
- Statutory Address:
- CROPTHORNE COURT, 20-28, MAIDA VALE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Cropthorne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROPTHORNE COURT, 20-28, MAIDA VALE
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:
- CROPTHORNE COURT, 20-28, MAIDA VALE
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 26317 82601
Details
1900/0/10334 MAIDA VALE 08-OCT-03 Maida Vale 20-28 Cropthorne Court
II Cropthorne Court. Block of flats. 1928-30. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect. Monumental range faced in brown-pink brick, ground floor with buff-coloured faience.
PLAN: saw-tooth plan with three entrances, each flanked by bastion-like projections. Lifts and stairs behind entrances serving two flats per floor. Towers to rear containing projecting bedrooms.
EXTERIOR: seven storeys in all. Three entrances, each with low rectangular recessed openings leading to paired doors and with concierge windows to right. Decorative Moderne motif to window lintels of north-west ground floor continuation (formerly a bank). Upper floors arranged around the strongly rhythmic series of projecting angles, flanking tall arched recesses over the entrances, with low screens on square columns above openings. Low first floors with faience banding at top of window level, beneath a band of end-set brickwork. Metal casement windows, those to fifth floor arched resembling thermal openings. Sixth, attic storey with a band of faience at eaves level beneath the shallow projecting hipped roof.
To rear, six projecting towers with smaller windows. Tradesman's entrances and garages to rear. Neoclassical gate piers at either end of the block.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Two flats per floor, each with standard plans comprising interconnecting living and dining rooms, three bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, and maid's room.
HISTORY: of considerable interest as a transitional block of flats, mixing classical forms with a novel and unusual plan form, which sought to let in as much light as possible into these south-west facing rooms. The strongly modelled block is 400 ft long but only 70 ft deep. Stylistically the building shows the shift away from a reliance upon scaled-up historicist sources towards a self-consciously modern approach. The architect was one of the leading practitioners of his day, and his characteristically monumental employment of brick is seen to good effect here, as is his singular adaptation of the Roman classical idiom. The flats were originally let out at rates ranging from £375-425 p.a..
SOURCES: Architect & Building News, 3 October 1930, 463-66; Architects' Journal, 17 December 1930, 896-901; The Builder, 19 September 1930, 469-70.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architects Journal in 17 December, (1930), 896-901
The Builder in 19 September, (1930), 469-70
The Architect and Building News in 3 October, (1930), 463-66
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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