Tothill House

Tothill House is a tenement courtyard block of flats built between 1928 and 1930 as part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor Estate; Sir Edwin Lutyens was a consultant on the project. The building is constructed of grey brick and white rendered chequerboard external elevations, with grey brick and rendered access galleries to the courtyard elevations, and stone dressings. It has a concealed roof.

The design is in a stripped Georgian style with decorative details concentrated on the entrance bay. The building presents a symmetrical facade to Page Street, with long courtyard flank ranges extending to Vincent Street, enclosing a deep rectangular courtyard. It is six storeys high facing Page Street, and five storeys to the returns and Vincent Street extension.

The Page Street front features a central, broad recess which is blind except for central stair lights, flanked by shallow wings each four windows wide, leaving one blind bay as a rendered panel within the chequerboard pattern. A central, channelled pier entrance, leading to the stairs, is topped by an archivolt arch under an open pediment and a stepped stone parapet, all set within a built-out ashlar screen wall, with four carved stone escutcheon panels above. Flush-framed, glazing bar sashes are set within the chequerboard pattern. Parapet copings finish the facades. The flank ranges and the four-window end facing Vincent Street are similar in style. This is an imaginative Lutyens interpretation of a standard London County Council housing block. A separate lodge is located at No. 14 Vincent Street.