Lillington Gardens

Lillington Gardens is an estate in the Pimlico area of the City of Westminster, London, constructed in phases between 1961 and 1971 to a plan by Darbourne & Darke.

The estate was among the last of the high-density public housing schemes built in London during the postwar period and is referred to as one of the most distinguished.

It emphasised individuality in the grouping of dwellings and provided for private gardens at ground and roof levels.

The estate's high build quality, and particularly the planted gardens of its wide "roof streets", blend sympathetically with the surrounding Victorian terraces.

[3] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described it in 1973 as "easily the most interesting recent housing in inner London".