549 Lordship Lane
549 Lordship Lane, also known as the Concrete House, is a house on
The house may have been designed by
It was made from Portland cement with "burnt ballast" (clay) aggregate, without reinforcement, faced with mortar and render. The house has an L-shape plan, with two storeys and an attic. The ground floor has canted bays on the two principal façades, to the south west and south east, with pointed arched windows, and gabled porch in the return angle on the south west elevation. There are further pointed arched windows on the first floor, and square headed windows on the north west and north east elevations. The steeply pitched slate roof has projecting gables, topped by three large concrete chimneys.
The house was sold three years after it was completed, and passed through the hands of many owners. It suffered bomb damage in the Second World War, but survived plans to replace it in the 1950s with a
The owner was granted planning permission to construct a similar building behind, on condition that the Concrete House was restored, but while the new building was completed, the restoration was not done, and the house became increasingly dilapidated. Southwark London Borough Council rejected several applications for permission to demolish the building. It was listed on English Heritage's Buildings At Risk register from 1994 to 2013.
The house was acquired by Southwark Council in 2009 under a
The restoration won the Angel Commendation award from English Heritage in 2013,[2] and an award for building conservation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2014.
References
- ^ "549 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, Southwark, c.1930". Ideal Homes. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ Wilding, Mark (7 October 2013). "The Concrete House restoration wins English Heritage commendation". bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- Number 549 and gate piers, National Heritage List for England, Historic England
- A gothic house made from concrete, ianvisits.co.uk, 22 August 2019
- The Concrete House Restoration by Paul Latham, The Dulwich Society, 25 September 2013
- The Concrete House, 549 Lordship Lane, The Dulwich Society, 14 June 2013
- Newsletter, The Dulwich Society, 25 June 2009
- 549 Lordship Lane, Heritage of London Trust Operations
- Restoring Charles Drake's concrete house, Paul Latham, Institute of Historic Building Conservation, 8 September 2016
- 549 Lordship Lane, London, Architectural Heritage Fund, 20 November 2018