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Marrowbone House — Marrowbone Lane

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Marrowbone House — Marrowbone Lane
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Detached U-plan four-storey multiple-bay social housing complex, built 1937, comprising two L-plan blocks with curved corners, linked by recessed seven-bay block flanked by taller single-bay blocks. Forming three sides of courtyard to rear (north), and having external staircase towers and deck access to courtyard elevations. Flat roof with projecting eaves. Roughcast rendered chimneystacks. Raised red brick parapets to corners and junctions of block. Brick walls laid in Flemish garden wall bond having yellow brick bands in line with window opening, alternating with red brick bands. Roughcast rendered walls to rear, roughcast rendered parapet walls to decks. Painted concrete walls to stair towers. Square-headed window openings with continuous sill courses to front elevation. Replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings to rear decks having timber doors with quadripartite circular glazing. Recent decorative grilles to stair towers. Set back from street having metal railings on masonry plinth, intersperse with red brick piers. Double-leaf entrance gates to centre of front, set in red brick surround with banded piers and curved oversailing moulded concrete canopy. Segmental-headed pedestrian entrance to rear of east block, set in red brick surround with concrete coping, having metal pedestrian gate. Recent paving to rear courtyard. Parking, playground and games area within courtyard.

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