Eagle Printing Works, Brixton Road

[boohoo]

There is a nice article about this building on urban.

Eagle Printing Works

Whilst looking at the front of the place, I believe part of the earlier signage for the shops is still in place, dating from at least the 1920s! You can see the gold lettering behind the modern signage!



Now, can we date the sign?

 

[CH1]

Sorry to bump - but just noticed there is a planning application in to put a mansard roof on top of this building.
Not an improvement IMHO.

Planning Application: http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...ils.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MJPKZ7BOHV000
Deadline for comment Friday 10th May

 

[cuppa tee]

Looks like they are planning to get rid of the structure with the date at the top

definitely not an improvement.....bloody vandals !!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Looks like they are planning to get rid of the structure with the date at the top

definitely not an improvement.....bloody vandals !!

I've just found this. Looks like it's gone

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Side on view from 1920

 

[leanderman]

I've just found this. Looks like it's gone

How did it come to this?

A beautiful Victorian building with elegant lettering wrecked by subdivision, shutters and shocking signage.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

How did it come to this?

A beautiful Victorian building with elegant lettering wrecked by subdivision, shutters and shocking signage.

Profile is still a hairdressers though, as it was in 1969

 

[CH1]

I've just found this. Looks like it's gone

Any idea when these photos were taken? Looks like there must have been a make-over in the last 10 years when the front got painted & the pediment type feature was removed. Was that a weather vane on top?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No idea I'm afraid

Looks like it had a weather vane on top. Probably been sold for scrap metal by now

 

[CH1]

Looks like they are planning to get rid of the structure with the date at the top

definitely not an improvement.....bloody vandals !!

any idea of the date of yr photo? Looks more recent than the one on the Urban75 blog said to be 2003.

 

[CH1]

I'm trying to put together a response to planning on this. There are actually 3 applications - one for the back half of the site as a "mews" development, a conservation area application for said mews plus the one quoted in #2 for a mansard roof at the front. Curiously no conservation area application for the front.
I think that it would be great to get that date feature above the parapet re-instated, but I dare say that's pie in the sky.

 

[leanderman]

Conservation area? You are having a laugh!

Presumably this designation was imposed after the horse bolted

 

[editor]

That's one of my favourite buildings along that stretch. It's also one of the few buildings left with any character. It's criminal that some developer has been allowed to just tear down such a distinctive piece of architecture.

I did a 'then and now' study ten years ago:
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/brixtonroad5.html

 

[editor]

Here's how it looks now.

 

[leanderman]

Here's how it looks now.

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Two satellite dishes - estate agent boards - draping wires - a repair company that can't even repair its own shambolic sign -grim shutters.

Not much conservation has gone on there!

 

[cuppa tee]

any idea of the date of yr photo? Looks more recent than the one on the Urban75 blog said to be 2003.

I found the image via google...... It's on Flickr and dated April 28th 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarflondondunc/2447798275/
Is it relevant that the planning history of the property on the Lambeth planning website which goes back to 1991 doesn't contain any applications to have the pediment removed as far as I can see....... http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...o?activeTab=relatedCases&keyVal=003Q7ZBOLI000

 

[editor]

It was there in June 2003 and looking good. Now there's just a weird little hump.

 

[leanderman]

It was there in June 2003 and looking good. Now there's just a weird little hump.

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Surely the freeholder should face enforcement action to reinstate an important architectural feature?

 

[CH1]

I found the image via google...... It's on Flickr and dated April 28th 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarflondondunc/2447798275/
Is it relevant that the planning history of the property on the Lambeth planning website which goes back to 1991 doesn't contain any applications to have the pediment removed as far as I can see....... http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...o?activeTab=relatedCases&keyVal=003Q7ZBOLI000

Thanks very much.

 

[CH1]

Surely the freeholder should face enforcement action to reinstate an important architectural feature?

You must be aware that Lambeth is not very hot at enforcement. You are quite right - as the feature has been removed less than 5 years ago they should be made to restore it.
BTW I am not sure who the freeholder is - but the planning applications are from A Thomas.

 

[editor]

BTW I am not sure who the freeholder is - but the planning applications are from A Thomas.

Not from the all conquering Antic, surely?

 

[leanderman]

You must be aware that Lambeth is not very hot at enforcement.

Been trying to force their enforcers to enforce the removal of a hoarding blocking the Brixton Water Lane pavement (by Josephine Avenue). No joy so far.

 

[CH1]

Not from the all conquering Antic, surely?

I don't think Antic is the only string to Mr Thomas's bow.
He tries his best to get the max from difficult sites. See application for a concrete house on the site behind 89 Effra Road (Effra Social) - surrounded by other people's gardens, and only accessible from the neighbouring housing association's private road. Not even accessible from the Effra Social see here. 13 neighbours objecting.

Talking of Antic, the refusal for the DogStar's roof garden was posted by Lambeth Planning today: The proposed roof terrace would, by virtue of its height, siting and proximity to the surrounding residential accommodation, unacceptably impact upon the living conditions of the same residential occupiers, resulting in an increase in noise and general disturbance as well as actual and perceived overlooking to the detriment of their amenities. As such, the proposal is contrary to Policies 4, 7, 29 and 33 of London Borough of Lambeth Unitary Development Plan (2007): 'Policies saved beyond 5 August 2010 and not superseded by the LDF Core Strategy January 2011'. See here

 

[CH1]

Looks like it had a weather vane on top. Probably been sold for scrap metal by now

Looking at Ed's photo it looks more like an ornamental lightning conductor.

 

[editor]

Here's how it looked in 1969:



http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?service=external/Item&sp=ZBrixton+Road&sp=88808&sp=X

 

[leanderman]

I don't think Antic is the only string to Mr Thomas's bow.
He tries his best to get the max from difficult sites. See application for a concrete house on the site behind 89 Effra Road (Effra Social) - surrounded by other people's gardens, and only accessible from the neighbouring housing association's private road. Not even accessible from the Effra Social see here. 13 neighbours objecting.

What cheek. So that is what would be the Effra Social's garden?

That map also shows very clearly how gardens are so unequally divided in London!

 

[CH1]

What cheek. So that is what would be the Effra Social's garden? That map also shows very clearly how gardens are so unequally divided in London!

I got into the site a couple of weeks ago - courtesy of someone living at Walker Mews (the housing association terrace next door, which would have to provide access for the building work and finished house.

At the Effra it looks like the Tories walled off the end of the garden so they could rent out the two garages (now derelict). It's probably been like that for years - not part of what looks from the map Effra Socials small garden.

The Eagle Printing Works is a similar case in a way - they are trying to maximise the return by splitting the site. The Works to have a mansard flat on top to sell off. The back part of the site to be cleared and have a new building on it - cleverly described such that it can be said to be partly "employment generating".

Funny how all those Tory memorabilia from the 1950s are preserved in the Effra Social yet an 1864 pediment showing the building date and holding the lightning conductor just disappear at the Eagle Printing Works! Just shows that one man's conservation meat is another man's poison I suppose.

 

[leanderman]

At the Effra it looks like the Tories walled off the end of the garden so they could rent out the two garages (now derelict). It's probably been like that for years - not part of what looks from the map Effra Socials small garden.
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So - at a guide price of £850,000 - the Antic people managed to buy a huge pub and a building plot. Smart bastards

 

[Rushy]

Been trying to force their enforcers to enforce the removal of a hoarding blocking the Brixton Water Lane pavement (by Josephine Avenue). No joy so far.

That was owned by Black Ant (guess who that is!). Think it was repossessed and sold at auction.

 

[editor]

Here's a photo from Feb 2008. I can feel an article coming on.