Description

TQ 2978 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PAGE STREET, SW1
105/15 (south side)
5.2.70 Rogers House
G.V. II
Tenement courtyard block of flats. 1928-30; consultant Sir Edwin Lutyens;
part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor Estate. Grey
brick and white rendered chequerboard external elevations with grey brick
and rendered access galleries to courtyard elevations, spare stone
dressings, concealed roofs. Stripped Georgian style, with decorative
detail confined to entrance bay. This block has a symmetrical front to
Page Street and long courtyard flank ranges,that to east extended through
to Vincent Street q.v., enclosing deep rectangular courtyard. 6 storeys to
Page Street and to returns with 5 storeys to extension through to Vincent
Street. Page Street front has broad central recess, blind apart from
central stair lights, flanked by shallow wings each 4 windows wide but
leaving one blind bay as a rendered panel in the chequerboard. Central
channelled pier entrance, to stairs, with archivolt arch under open
pediment and stepped parapet above, set in built out ashlar screen wall; 4
carved stone escutcheon panels above. Flush framed glazing bar sashes in
chequerboard. Parapet copings finish off the facades. The flank ranges
and 4-window end to Vincent Street are similar. An imaginative Lutyens
treatment of a standard LCC type of housing block. N.B. for associated
lodge see No. 12 Vincent Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2994078831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318895

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]