16-57 Kingfisher Court

This is a block of flats dating from around 1935, designed by Guy Morgan. Constructed of pink brick in a Flemish bond pattern, the building has an oversailing flat roof with boxed eaves, a boarded soffit, and brick chimneys. Alongside a detached block to the southwest (flats 1-15), it forms a large quadrangle, characterised by wide openings on its west and south sides. The principal elevations face a central courtyard and the road on the west side. The building is three storeys high, with additional flat-roofed sections on the roofs of the east and west wings. The east wing’s flat roof features a loggia with storage cupboards behind it, while the west wing has an open-sided section housing a brick water tank.

The design is in the Modern Movement style, featuring metal windows, primarily of two or three lights, with tile sills, concrete lintels, and horizontal glazing bars on the ground and first floors. Wider, curved corner-windows are found at the ends of projecting, curved-cornered bays and sections. Wide entrances have glazed double-doors, flanked by curved pilasters, and curved-cornered canopies. Full-height stair-windows with glazing bars are located above the entrances, and decorative railing is present on the loggia. The rear elevations are simpler, with open-fronted, railed stairwells providing access to panelled and glazed back doors, which retain their original ridged glazing.

Inside the flats, there are wooden floors, panelled cupboards and doors (some with overlights), tile window sills, and some original fireplaces with polished stone surrounds and tiled hearths. The staircases have a dado rail and plain stair rails with wooden handrails. Originally, the southern portion of the east wing was used as a cafe and social club.

In conjunction with the block containing flats 1-15, the swimming pool with pump-house, and the pond in the sunken garden, this range represents an impressive luxury apartment development built in the 1930s and reflecting the Modern Movement style.