Fairchild House, Hoxton

Fairchild House is a 1950 apartment block on the Pitfield Estate in Hoxton, London.

Fairchild House
Fairchild House

It is a six-storey building of council housing. The Twentieth Century Society notes "the lavish treatment of its Northern elevation".[1] It is a red brick building containing an interesting examples of the Mendelsohn curve of Art Deco, Streamline Moderne architecture.

The building was opened by Aneurin (Nye) Bevan in 1950, the then Labour Minister for Health.

The land surrounding the building contains several plague pits.

References

  1. "Fairchild House, Pitfield Estate, Hoxton". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

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