Eagle Printing Works, Brixton Road

[CH1]

The decision on Anthony (Antic) Thomas's application for a mansard roof extension to the Eagle Printing Works at 304 Brixton Road has just been published.
Looks like the planning officers are asking for the restoration of lost date detail on the façade - there certainly seems to be a suggestion that design details of the "decorative cornice with date plaque and chimney" are to be submitted for approval.

http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00483998.pdf

section 106 notes: http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00483999.pdf

Let's hope Lambeth planning get this sorted out and it doesn't get lost in the works. (This application has been under consideration since 15th March 2013)

 

[Rushy]

The decision on Anthony (Antic) Thomas's application for a mansard roof extension to the Eagle Printing Works at 304 Brixton Road has just been published.
Looks like the planning officers are asking for the restoration of lost date detail on the façade - there certainly seems to be a suggestion that design details of the "decorative cornice with date plaque and chimney" are to be submitted for approval.

http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00483998.pdf

section 106 notes: http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00483999.pdf

Let's hope Lambeth planning get this sorted out and it doesn't get lost in the works. (This application has been under consideration since 15th March 2013)

Lambeth will quite likely only notice its omission if someone points it out - I don't think anyone checks conditions.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Here's how it looked in 1969:

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

Oh my gosh. I remember that sweet shop from mid 70's.

 

[CH1]

Lambeth will quite likely only notice its omission if someone points it out - I don't think anyone checks conditions.

Maybe I'll try asking the planning officer about that.
They did take on board the original complaint (unusually I thought).

 

[CH1]

Oh my gosh. I remember that sweet shop from mid 70's.

It was the Player's No 6 you were after, not the sweets, surely?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

It was the Player's No 6 you were after, not the sweets, surely?

I did start smoking early but we went out of the area to get ours; ten No 6, cheapest you could get.

 

[Rushy]

Maybe I'll try asking the planning officer about that.
They did take on board the original complaint (unusually I thought).

I wouldn't worry. It is good that they included the condition. I just mean that - even if the condition details are agreed - they might not reinstate the detail. If that were to be the case, it is often up to the public to point this out so that planning can deal with it.

 

[calno4]

Heres how it looked in 1952 plus an 1889 advertisment for the upholsterers at 302, George Vickers Ltd in this image

 

[CH1]

Heres how it looked in 1952 plus an 1889 advertisment for the upholsterers at 302, George Vickers Ltd in this image
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Now where was his "Spacious Depository" at 100 Barrington Road?

 

[calno4]

Here?

 

[calno4]

I wonder if this was the same Dougharty, it happened in 1865

 

[calno4]

The depository is mentioned here when the chapel caught fire on the 10th December 1895

 

[calno4]

Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 14 February 1897

 

[calno4]

Illustration of the 1895 Gresham Chapel fire

 

[calno4]

It was the upper part, the school floor that was most damaged, the pulpit remained intact

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Lee Jackson (Victorian London) is asking questions about this building on Twitter

Suggesting it was built as a bank rather than as the printing works.

Or was later used as a bank.

1911 London Suburban street directory (it's public domain online somewhere) shows 304 Brixton Road as "Penton John, stationer / POST, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savgs.Bk"

any bright ideas?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

found this here

Although this lists 304 Brixton Road as a branch of the London & South Western Bank (think it's wrong - another page of same document lists 275 which was more or less opposite.)

And mapping at Victorian London in Incredible Detail | Mapping London (the "25 inch" map) shows 304 as PO, building opposite as bank

 

[editor]

The building still looks a mess today. It's shameful.

(From: Late night Brixton street and bar scenes on a cold and damp February evening: photos )

 

[CH1]

A friend who cycles around recently contacted me saying "the Eagle Print Works roof has gone".
Not sure this is immedately visible from the street at all angles, but he reinfirced his point by sending the Google streetview image below:


Somthing of a shocker. I recalled that the original plan by the buiding owners was to put a mansard roof on.
The plans for this were approved by the council back in 2013 - and did not include removal of the date pediment and decorative iron finial - see posts upthread from years ago.

This is the drawing Antic submitted for approval in 2013

How can Lambeth Planning allow Antic to take a slow wrecking ball and remove the interesting features of a building in a conservation area? Even allowing for the fact they were proposing new units of exploitatively priced accommodation?

It wasn't always so. Back in 1995 Lambeth made Metropolitan Housing Trust build three infil houses on Coldharbour Lane in 1840s styles - to match existing - and they did a goodjob too. (These were reinstatement buildings on bomb sites).

The way planning works now the past is forgotten and the butcher not so much forgiven as totally ignored.

I should point out in this connection that the 2013 approval lapses in five years - so Antic are well out of time and breaking the law.

Here is a photo showing scafforlding up at the rear. There is a ginell at the back - but only possible to photo scaffold from either side, not from the back.

 

[Ryan2468]

There's scaffolding up on the front of it as well when I went past late last week.