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Lichfield Court Flats, Sheen Road, Richmond
By: Bertram Carter and Sloot
Built: 1935
Lichfield Court comprises two blocks with a driveway between them that leads to rear car parking.
The large block (flats 1-152) is a rectangular block with semi-circular stairwells projecting into internal courtyard. It has four entrances - one at upper ground level, the others at lower-ground level, all with lifts and stairwells.
All flats accessed by galleries that run around the internal courtyard. Boiler house behind south elevation, which has shops (Nos.1-8) on upper ground floor. Shops, too (Nos.9-17), to south elevation of smaller block, which is U-shaped with carriage entrance into inner courtyard at lower ground level, and one entrance on each of the ground levels. Flats again reached via galleries around the courtyard.
All corners curved, with curved windows. Balcony fronts are curved at one end, and have roll-stops where they abut the brickwork of the building at the other, for the corners to the entrance project, while the rest of the main facades are set back behind the line of the shops.
The diagonally opposite corner at the rear of the main block is similarly set forward, as is the centrepiece of each long side wall.
Opaque glass screens separate the balcony areas to each flat and all windows are Crittall metal frames with strong horizontal glazing pattern, save for five flats that have windows renewed in UPVC, of which four are at the rear.
(source www.historicengland.org.uk)
Lichfield Court Flats, Sheen Road, Richmond
By: Bertram Carter and Sloot
Built: 1935
Lichfield Court comprises two blocks with a driveway between them that leads to rear car parking.
The large block (flats 1-152) is a rectangular block with semi-circular stairwells projecting into internal courtyard. It has four entrances - one at upper ground level, the others at lower-ground level, all with lifts and stairwells.
All flats accessed by galleries that run around the internal courtyard. Boiler house behind south elevation, which has shops (Nos.1-8) on upper ground floor. Shops, too (Nos.9-17), to south elevation of smaller block, which is U-shaped with carriage entrance into inner courtyard at lower ground level, and one entrance on each of the ground levels. Flats again reached via galleries around the courtyard.
All corners curved, with curved windows. Balcony fronts are curved at one end, and have roll-stops where they abut the brickwork of the building at the other, for the corners to the entrance project, while the rest of the main facades are set back behind the line of the shops.
The diagonally opposite corner at the rear of the main block is similarly set forward, as is the centrepiece of each long side wall.
Opaque glass screens separate the balcony areas to each flat and all windows are Crittall metal frames with strong horizontal glazing pattern, save for five flats that have windows renewed in UPVC, of which four are at the rear.
(source www.historicengland.org.uk)