Sun House is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. A Modern Detached house. 2 related planning applications.
Sun House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-belfry-summer
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Detached house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ2685NW FROGNAL WAY 798-1/26/542 (North side) 14/05/74 No.9 Sun House
GV II*
Detached house. 1935-6. By Maxwell Fry. Reinforced concrete walls using wallboard shuttering. Flat roof. 3 storeys and roof terrace. Continuous strip windows; glazing altered. On a steeply sloping south-facing site the ground floor right-hand bay being the projecting entrance and garage; to left, the rear retaining wall and thin steel pilotis support the 1st floor continuous balcony with tubular steel railings. 1st floor windows plate glass sliding French windows; right hand end of balcony, with projecting canopy, breaks forward over garage and entrance; left hand end with panel of small glazed lights in end wall and thin steel piloti supporting a loggia at 2nd floor level, now panelled in. 2nd floor windows originally sliding, now metal framed casements. Parapet with tubular rail balustrade to roof terrace with projecting canopy. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Fry was a founder member of the MARS Group which did much to forward the cause of the new architecture. It is a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in the UK.
Listing NGR: TQ2617985543
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