Memo

Located close to the Houses of Parliament and the River Thames, and built on the site of the old Millbank Penitentiary, the Millbank Estate comprises fifteen beautiful red-brick arts and crafts mansion blocks commissioned by the London County Council (LCC) between 1897 and 1902.

Today the Millbank Estate is made up of 550 individual flats, managed on behalf of CityWest Homes by the Millbank Estate Management Organisation (MEMO), a tenant management organisation (TMO) run by and for the residents of the Estate.

Originally constructed to provide working class flats for 4,430 people, Millbank was a flagship project in many ways. Unlike earlier large housing projects, it had no shared lavatories or sculleries, and more spacious courtyards than were to be found in the more affluent mansion blocks in Victoria. Owing to the importance and quality of its architecture, the Estate has been designated Grade II listed.

 

Named after eminent artists from the last three hundred years, including Ruskin, Wilkie and Hogarth, the blocks themselves bear testament to the area's rich cultural heritage and the Estate's proximity to the Tate Britain Art Gallery.