Chelsea Harbour Living

The Quadrangle is the first block of flats you encounter on entering Chelsea Harbour. The Quadrangle is on the left of the roadway leading through to the Marina, with the Chambers on the right. It’s quite quiet since its away from the main harbour area. The front of the Quadrangle is on Chelsea Harbour Drive, opposite Carlyle Court. The view at the back is over Lots Road and some rather evocative Victoria industrial buildings. This is where the second phase of Chelsea Harbour will be constructed.

The Quadrangle was built to contain flats on six floors. The top floor has a pitched roof with a large porthole window. On Chelsea Harbour Drive, the ground floor flats of The Quadrangle are hidden from the street by a wall which is above head height, behind which are small garden terraces for the ground floor flats. The front of The Quadrangle is therefore set back from the street. Each flat has one front room with its windows flush with the façade, and another which is set a few feet back with a balcony in front, protected by a waist-high iron railing. Most of the façade is concrete which is painted magnolia to match Carlyle Court opposite. But at each end of The Quadrangle there is brick work above ground floor level, which matches the Chambers on the other side of the road. Between the pavement and the road is a long brick-built flower bed with bushes and plants.

At the back of The Quadrangle there are flowers and bushes in a built-up brick flower bed. There are two shallow wings at either end of the building. In the corner of each wing spiral staircases run right up to the top of the building, in dramatic glass-panelled tubes.

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