Brandlehow School Explained

Brandlehow Primary School
Address:Brandlehow Road
Location:Putney
County:London
Country:England
Postcode:SW15 2ED
Coordinates:51.4614°N -0.2068°W
Type:Community school
Established:1950
Local Authority:Wandsworth
Ofsted:yes
Urn:101001
Head Label:Headteacher
Head:Ellie Loughnan
Gender:Co-educational
Lower Age:3
Upper Age:11
Capacity:350
Enrollment:305

Brandlehow Primary School is in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth,[1] the building was designed by Ernő Goldfinger and is Grade II listed.

Location

The school is in Putney SW15 on the east side of Brandlehow Road, south of Wandsworth Park and north of the railway line between Putney station and Wandsworth town station.

Site history

The original 'Brandlehow Road School' was a three storey building and opened on the site in February 1902,[2] [3] the site was hit during bombing in World War Two, the London County Council Bomb Damage Map (1945) shows many buildings were damaged beyond repair.[4] [5]

Building

The existing building was designed by Ernő Goldfinger, it was built in 1950[6] [7] and then opened by broadcaster Wilfred Pickles in June 1952.[8]

Goldfinger's design used his own innovative prefabricated reinforced concrete-frame system,[9] also used at Greenside Primary School in Hammersmith and which used half the steel of standard steel-framed buildings at the time.[10] The building frame was infilled with red bricks in an L-shaped layout around the playground, with a single storey, including a taller assembly hall with full-height windows looking into the playground on the west side, with classrooms on the north side, and a brick tower at the site entrance.

An extension was designed by Goldfinger in the 1960s, this was not prefabricated and had less glazing.[11]

The building was listed as Grade II on 30 March 1993.[12]

Recent additions

In 2005 an extension by team 51.5° architects was added also using prefabricated techniques,[13] the new building opened in 2006[14] [15] and included a new wooden playground.[16]

The original Goldfinger designed school keeper's cottage was illegally demolished in 2007 by developer Rajiv Laxman,[17] Director of Abrus Ltd.[18] Laxman was fined £37,000 plus costs of £3,000 under the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990[19] and the cottage was subsequently restored in 2013 as part of a residential project.[20]

Further plans for building on the school were proposed in 2019.[21]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: website . Brandlehow School . Home . brandlehowschool.org.uk . Brandelhow School . 23 September 2022 . en.
  2. News: Glory days to modern ways . 23 September 2022 . News Shopper . 7 February 2003 . en.
  3. Web site: Opening of Brandlehow Road School, February 1902- 1902 . boroughphotos.org/ . Wandsworth Local Studies and Archives . 23 September 2022 . en . 21 April 2015.
  4. Web site: JISC . University of Portsmouth, in collaboration with the National Archives and funded by . High Explosive Bomb dropped near Brandlehow Road during the London Blitz . bombsight.org/ . Bomb Sight . 23 September 2022.
  5. Web site: Bomb Damage (1945) . www.layersoflondon.org . 23 September 2022.
  6. Web site: BRANDLEHOW SCHOOL . historicengland.org.uk . Historic England . 23 September 2022 . en.
  7. Web site: Brandlehow Primary School, Putney, London . RIBApix . RIBA . 23 September 2022 . en.
  8. Book: Harwood . Elain . Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938–1963 . 14 October 2021 . Batsford . 978-1-84994-757-2 . 23 September 2022 . en.
  9. Web site: Model demonstrating the assembly of a prefabricated concrete construction system for Westville Road Primary School and Brandlehow Road Infants School, Hammersmith, London . RIBApix . RIBA . 23 September 2022 . en.
  10. Book: Hille . T. . Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education . 20 January 2012 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-0-470-91647-6 . 23 September 2022 . en.
  11. News: Barker . Don . ArchitectureWeek - Building - Primary Prefab - 2006.0906 . 23 September 2022 . Architecture Week . 6 September 2006.
  12. Web site: Brandlehow School, Wandsworth, London . britishlistedbuildings.co.uk . British Listed Buildings . 23 September 2022.
  13. News: CASE STUDY 5 Brandlehow School . 23 September 2022 . The Architects’ Journal . 1 May 2006 . en.
  14. News: Barker . Don . ArchitectureWeek - Building - Primary Prefab - 2006.0906 . 23 September 2022 . Architecture Week . 6 September 2006.
  15. Web site: BRANDLEHOW PRIMARY SCHOOL EXTENSION . www.saramoiola.com/ . 23 September 2022.
  16. Web site: Brandlehow Primary School Treehouse Playground by PlayEquip . playequip.com . 23 September 2022.
  17. News: Menhinnitt . Dan . Developer fined for demolishing Goldfinger's cottage . 23 September 2022 . Sutton & Croydon Guardian . 22 November 2007 . en.
  18. Web site: ABRUS LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK . find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . 23 September 2022 . en.
  19. Web site: HISTORIC BUILDINGS PROSECUTION FINES NATIONAL DATABASE - LEAGUE TABLE [A] ]. ihbc.org.uk . Institute of Historic Building Conservation . 23 September 2022.
  20. News: Architecture Initiative breathes life into neglected Grade II Ernő Goldfinger scheme . https://web.archive.org/web/20150414145040/http://www.architectureinitiative.com/News-Erno-Goldfinger . 2015-04-14 . 23 September 2022 . Architecture Initiative . 15 April 2013.
  21. Web site: New Build Information 2019 . www.brandlehowschool.org.uk . Brandlehow School . 23 September 2022.

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