Dorchester Court
DORCHESTER COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Dorchester Court
- Statutory Address:
- DORCHESTER COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Dorchester Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORCHESTER COURT
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:
- DORCHESTER COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Lambeth (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32284 74954, TQ 32302 75000, TQ 32310 74941, TQ 32332 74986, TQ 32338 74927, TQ 32359 74972, TQ 32367 74913, TQ 32385 74944
Details
963/0/10150 HERNE HILL 09-FEB-04 Dorchester Court
GV II Development of 96 flats in eight blocks around a central landscaped courtyard (q.v.). 1933-4 by Leslie H Kemp and Frederick E Tasker for Mr Morrell, a local builder and developer. Moderne style. Red brick with concrete roof and floor slabs that extend as balconies to the principal rooms. Flat roofs. Four storeys. The four corner blocks are 'L'-shaped, with sixteen flats per block, arranged around a staircase set in the angle. The central blocks are simpler, with eight flats, two per floor, set either side of a central stair. Projecting bands of brickwork at sill level, exposed concrete floor slabs and horizontal glazing bars to the casement windows set up a strong horizontal rhythm, enhanced by projecting balconies in blocks, the uppermost with projecting flat concrete roofs. This horizontality is countered by full-height staircase windows that carry through the floors and which in the corner blocks are set back, and by soldier courses of brickwork above the windows. To Herne Hill and Dorchester Drive there are long balconies divided by set-back columns, while to the courtyard glazed screens with horizontal glazing bars provide some privacy to the balconies. Eight flats have had some window replacement in UPVC. Integral planting boxes at ground floor level either side of set-back doors, those to corner blocks set in the angle and all with projecting flat concrete hoods. Glazed timber double doors lead to small-paned glazed timber screens with single doors giving entrance to stairwells. The interiors retain glazed lifts with glazed double doors set in the stairwell. Moderne cast iron balustrades in front of the windows. Other staircases are solid with brass handrails. Cast iron fronts to inset radiators with art deco swirls. Woodblock floors to public areas with timber doors to flats.
Included as a complete and little altered development of moderne-style flats, not denuded by the limited window replacement that has taken place, most prominently to the block containing nos.49-64. The ensemble remains exceptionally well detailed outside and within. Kemp and Tasker were best known as cinema architects, but they also designed the listed Dorchester House alongside, also for Morrell.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490913
- 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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