This is a gem of a building which is being very badly neglected by its freeholder. Built for Davis Estates, it has a curved, organic `Z'-shaped plan on acute angled site. Six storeys. This is one of the first blocks of flats in an expressionist style in England, and the first work here by Peter Caspari, a former assistant of Erich Mendelsohn and like him a refugee here in 1933. The banded horizontals and use of curves is more sophisticated than that by any comparable British architect and shows the influence of Mendelsohn. This is the most eloquent of Caspari's blocks of flats, and one of his few English works; after the Second World War he emigrated to Canada.
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Freehold: Cristobal Estates Ltd. part of Freshwater Group of Companies
Management: Kingsley Court RTM Company Ltd