George Bertram Carter

George Bertram Carter (1 March 1896 – January 1986)[1][2] was an English architect.

His works include: Bertram Carter's building goes beyond the merely functional brief to create a dramatic courtyard environment with white bands of the galleries stepping forward to envelop the staircase towers.

This highly stylised effect is truly unique and takes the building from being a quite standard apartment block of the era to a truly exciting new level.

In this they are reminiscent of Wells Coates's Embassy Court in Brighton dating from 1934 to 1935 with its 'radical white bands of balconies and stair parapets' (see Pevsner: Sussex, p.74).

This idea of the external walkway as access for high-rise buildings became very popular in post-war developments, and Litchfield Court can therefore be seen as an early forerunner of this design development.