Perronet House

Perronet House

Perronet House is a residential block of flats adjacent to the northern roundabout of the Elephant and Castle, in London.

Perronet House is an eleven storey residential tower block in the heart of South London's Elephant & Castle. In 1969 Sir Roger Walters was commissioned by the Greater London Council to design a high density block of social housing to compliment the already completed high rise buildings of commercial, educational and governmental establishments. It won a commendation in the 1971 Good Design In Housing awards.

It is a building of fascinating quirks, both structurally and socially. Flats are situated on a raised "P" (for PODIUM) level, and on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th floor. The P level flats are a later 1980s addition but all the flats above it are split level, arranged over three primary floors and wrapped around a central communal corridor. This provides each flat with a dual aspect unobstructed by external corridors more usually found on high rise social housing in the area.

Media coverage

* [http://www.timeout.com/london/ Time Out London] used images of the garden of the tenth floor communal sundeck in an article about Food Up Front, part of a feature on slow food. [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/2741712642_203c6ce7ae_b.jpgSee a scan of the article here]

*The Guardian filmed guerrilla gardeners temporarily retreating to a Perronet House flat after an encounter with police while gardening on the Elephant and Castle north roundabout. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/apr/25/guerrilla.gardening See the video here]

*The book [http://www.onguerrillagardening.com/ On Guerrilla Gardening] by Richard Reynolds (Bloomsbury 2008) includes numerous photos and references to Perronet House and the building also appears illustrated on the back cover. [http://www.onguerrillagardening.com See more about the book here]

External links

* [http://www.perronethouse.com Blog about Perronet House]


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