Dorset
House - Gloucester Place, London, UK
Architect
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T. P. Bennett &
Joseph Emberton
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Date Built
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1935
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Location
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Gloucester
Place
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Description
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This 10-storey apartment building occupies
a whole block at the corner of Gloucester
Place and Marylebone Road. The
"housingprototypes.org" describes Dorset
House as, "Four, point-access
towers are connected together defining
an interior courtyard, but also partly
enclose smaller garden spaces around the
perimeter of the building. Set on a
two-storey plinth of commercial spaces,
the top two floors step back creating a
distinctive terraced form. The tower
elements vary slightly in plan, but
either four or six apartments are
grouped around a short interior hallway
that is serviced by elevators and two
stairs. Dwellings vary in size from 1 to
3 bedrooms. Most have exposure to two or
three sides of the building and the
larger apartments have large terraces or
balconies on the ends of the tower
elements."
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