Lawrence House, Millbank Estate

Lawrence House is a block of flats built as part of the Millbank Estate in 1902. It was designed by Owen Fleming and R. Minton Taylor, as part of the London County Council's Architects' Department, and is noted for being one of the first and most significant LCC housing estates. The design was inspired by the Arts and Crafts principles of Thomas Jeckyll, Ernest Gimson, and Aubrey Beardsley, incorporating Queen Anne and Northern European architectural elements and executed to a high standard.

The red brick building has stone dressings and tiled roofs. It is slightly asymmetrical with a shallow east-west layout, built around a rear entrance courtyard and facing John Islip Street and Cureton Street. The block includes a five-story gabled pavilion wing at either end and a four-story section with an attic in between. The courtyard elevation features a central five-story section with a parapeted finish to its outer bays. A central porch, buttressed and with a steep pent roof and cambered arch, serves the courtyard entrance. The windows are flush framed sashes with glazing bars, arranged to reflect the internal layout. Dormers are positioned above the overhanging eaves. Lawrence House is designed to balance with the adjacent Maclise House, which is part of the same grouping north of the shared public garden.