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|date=1951
|date=1951
|architect=Eric Lyons
|architect=Eric Lyons
|builder=G. Paulson Townsend
|builder=Geoffrey Paulson Townsend
|use=Residential
|use=Residential
|osmid=w388787640
|osmid=w388787640

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Romney Court, Jameson Road
LL ref: 275
Start date: 1951
Architect: Eric Lyons
Builder: Geoffrey Paulson Townsend
Original use: Residential
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Designed by the well-known architect Eric Lyons (1912-80) and built in 1951 for the developer Geoffrey Townsend. Identified in Pevsner as a notable building and described as ‘arranged as three because the flats replaced three war-damaged houses and the War Damage Commission required reinstatement. The main stacks of windows arranged with in a projecting concrete frame. Elegant Festival of Britain-style porches’.

Lyons worked for Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry, joining the Span estates development company in 1948 which built 73 housing estates in the UK – several of Lyon’s estates are now Grade II listed buildings. Romney Court is a highly significant early work of his.