Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ERASMUS STREET, SW1 105/30 Hogarth House 5.2.70 G.V. II* LCC housing estate block of flats. 1899-1902 by Spalding and Cross, as the result of a competition held by the Council in conjunction with their Architects' Department housing section development of the Millbank Estate. One of the earliest and most significant of the LCC estates. Red brick with slight stone dressings and some rendering,slate roofs. Webb, Lethaby and Smith and Brewer inspired, humane, socialist Arts and Crafts housing with restrained use of "Queen Anne" and Northern European motifs. Hogarth House is the central block of the radial layout of the estate. Half H plan with polygonal corner turrets and shaped and straight gables. 5 storeys plus a dormered mansard storey. 11 window range with 3 window wings with turrets to inner angles. The main range has doorways, between the narrow and broad through-storey canted bays flanking the centrepice, set back in recessed porches with stone faced splayed sides and pent roofs over, carried on shallow segmental stone arches between the canted bays. Varied fenestration expresses interior distribution with cross-mullioned segmental arched casements above the porches, 2 light casements to the narrow canted bays, small stairlights,and tripartite and single glazing bar sashes to the centre piece and the broader canted bays contained in through-storey, shallow semicircular arched recesses. Parapets with copings, the straight gables set back behind them and with a very large swept shaped gable over the centre. Hogarth House was the first block to be started on site in 1899. A Revolution in London Housinq; Susan Beattie.

Listing NGR: TQ2990878648

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