Page Street

Though mostly undeveloped riverine marsh until the late eighteenth century, as evidenced by Horwood's map of 1792,[1] development was rapid in the nineteenth and the area became a notorious slum.

They are of red brick, similar in design to the nearby Pimlico Estate developed by the London County Council and the architects were Nathan S. Joseph and Charles James Smithem.

Accessed by balconies to the courtyard elevations, in the manner of much social housing of the period, the blocks were built in 1928–30 and front much of the western end of Page Street.

The courtyards are narrower than most of those of London County Council blocks of the period, something which was partly mitigated by the partial demolition of Tothill and Rogers Houses in about 1970, due to war damage, which created a recreational space.

As a result of this partial demolition the remaining Lutyens blocks and their lodges and gates were all Listed as early as 1970, when protection of social housing scheme was highly unusual.