EDwardian

1900 - 1920

Edward architecture is considered generally less ornate than high or late Victorian architecture, although major buildings formed a subset know as Edwardian Baroque architecture.

Included in this period is The Arts and Crafts movement, which was one of the few international trends to have originated in the British Isles which attempted to re-establish the skills of craftsmanship threatened by mass production and industrialisation. The use of vernacular - local - materials and traditions was popularised by architects who 'made' houses working with local craftsmen to create traditional works of art.

Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey

Polesden Lacey is a Regency house transformed into an Edwardian mansion by brewery heiress Mrs Ronald Greville.

The first house was built on the site in 1336, and the site has seen many new designs since then. The core house as it is today was originally built in 1821-1823 by Thomas Cubitt, and then transformed into an Edwardian house in 1906 by Mewès & Davis, the architects of the Ritz Hotel, under the instruction of socialite Dame Margaret Greville and her husband Captain Ronald Greville.

It is now owned and run by the National Trust.

**Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham, near Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6BD**

POPLAR TECHNICAL COLLEGE, POPLAR, LONDON E14

The college was established by the London County Council as the School of Marine Engineering and Navigation and dates from 1906. It was designed by W E Riley and the London County Council architects department.

It consists of a Portland stone faced elevation with a restrained use of Classical-Renaissance orders and ornament to dress the principal openings. The first floor almost semi-circular windows have finely dressed voussoir arches and are articulated by coupled engagelboric columns rising from sill course. the main entrance to the right consists of a rosette studded gadrooned architrave with an over-door light framed by well carved putti (also known as chubby male children! ) standing on dolphins.

The building now houses Tower Hamlets College and is Grade II listed.

**Poplar Technical College, (New City College) 112 Poplar High Street, London E14 0AF**

99A CHARING CROSS ROAD, SOHO W1D

An exuberant Baroque design of 1907 by CH Worley, using an unusual deployment of materials in the contrasting bands of glazed brick and sandstone.

**99a Charing Cross Road, Soho, Westminster, London W1D**

MICHELIN HOUSE, CHelsea SW3

Michelin House was constructed as the first permanent UK headquarters and tyre depot for the Michelin Tyre Company Limited.

The building opened for business on 20 January 1911 and is a unique example of late British Art Nouveau Style and early Art Deco. The architect was François Espinasse, an engineer in the construction department at Michelin's headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand.

The Art Nouveau style can be seen in the decorative metal work at the front with the tangling plants round the tyre motifs. Its prominent roadside position and its strong advertising images and symmetry demonstrate the popular Art Deco style of the 1930’s. In this respect, Michelin House is a building twenty years before its time.

Michelin House has been listed Grade II since April 1969.

**Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW3 6RD**

Wood’s Place, Bermondsey, SE1

A print factory built in 1915, with a main facade of white tiles and Crittal windows and a brick gable end with winches and access doors per floor. Since converted into apartments.

**Wood’s Place, Grange Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 3BS**

THORPES ESTATE, SYDENHAM, SE26

The area comprises the Thorpes Estate, an Edwardian development consisting of six roads laid out between 1901 and 1914 by Edmondson and Sons.

The estate was designated a conservation area in 2001 and owes its special character to the intrinsic townscape quality created by the consistency of style and materials of the houses and interesting detailing.

Features and details used were inspired by the Queen Anne, neo-Georgian and vernacular revivals using red brick contrasted by white roughcast, multi-paned sash windows, grey slate roofs and decorative pargeting.

**Thorpes Estate, Sydenham, London SE26 4PG**

GUARDIANS OFFICES, CAMBERWELL SE5

This Edwardian baroque office shown here originally served the Poor Law Guardians. The building now serves as the Employment Academy, which is dedicated to helping people in South London find work and is run by a charity called Thames Reach.

**Guardians Office, Camberwell, London SE5**

THE BUSSEY BUILDING, COPELAND PARK, PECKHAM SE15

An Edwardian brick-clad reinforced concrete industrial structure forthe well-known sporting goods manufacturers. George Bussey was an eminent Victorian industrialist and entrepreneur. The factory made cricket bats from its own willow farm in Suffolk.

It now houses a diverse community of artists, small creative businesses, bars, restaurants and a rooftop cinema.

**The Bussey Building, Copeland Park, Peckham, London SE15**

Frognal, Hampstead NW3

An Arts and Crafts style cottage on Frognal, Hampstead. Completed in 1906 by Amyan Champneys.

Battersea reference Library, SW11

The Latin motto set over the entrance to this library in Battersea translates as ‘Not for Me, Not for You, But for Us.’

Designed by Henry Hyams and built in 1924 with the aim to help and assist with the education of its’ young adults, the late Arts and crafts styling demonstrates a rich assemblage of roof profiling, articulation and decorative stone quoining.

**Battersea Reference Library, Altenburg Gardens, Battersea, London SW11**

VESTRY ROAD, CAMBERWELL SE5

Arts and Crafts styling to an end of terrace - the windows here are quite distinctive, with a unique curved glass bay window on the ground floor