Albury House, Boyfield Street Estate

Albury House is a block of flats completed in 1897, designed by RM Taylor for the London County Council's Housing Branch. It forms a pair with Clandon House, facing it across Boyfield Street. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof.

The block is three storeys high and features Arts and Crafts details, especially on the rear elevation. This elevation displays a deliberate juxtaposition of gables and angular end-on chimney breasts. The gabled sections are canted out; the chimneys corbel out at first-floor level and extend upward in a bartizan-like fashion above the roofline. The outer gabled sections have two chimneys, between which are casement windows set within round-arched recesses on each floor above the ground-floor entrances. The central gabled section is blind and has a single chimney. There are sash windows with glazing bars, accompanied by segmental, gauged-brick arches. Smaller, broader segmental-headed casement windows are recessed, with those on the second floor set beneath wide eaves. The front elevation has openings leading to staircases and the ground-floor flats, with short access balconies featuring simple ironwork providing access to the front doors of the upper-floor flats. Windows are mostly sashes, some paired, with glazing bars and segmental, gauged-brick arches.

The interior has not been inspected. Albury House, in its general appearance and design, is similar to the blocks at Rushworth Street – Merrow House and Ripley House.