Willcrooks Estate

Tower Hamlets | Ref 3009

Will Crooks Estate is an estate straddling Poplar High Street with views of Canary Wharf.

All five blocks are standard LCC five-storey neo-Georgian blocks, originally containing flats of the 1934 period, modified to provide each flat with its own fixed bath in a bathroom.

The buildings are constructed mainly in yellow stock brick, but with redbrick ground floors, and there is also some red-brick banding at top-storey level. The hipped roofs are covered with red clay pantiles. On the rear elevations continuous balconies (which have brick parapets with occasional metal grilles set into them) give access to the flats from staircase towers.