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Leo Street School, Southwark

Original name	Leo Street School
Current name	Unknown apartments
Previous names	Unknown
Current address	Leo Street, Peckham, London
Postcode	SE15 2RJ
Date of opening	1899
Date of addition(s)	1900
VSIL grading	Classic
Evidence source	SBL Map 1904; LCC: Education Service Particulars for the Year 1914-1915. Tim Walder site visit 2007.
Original architect	T J Bailey
Additional architect	Unknown
Style	Late Bailey
Borough	Southwark
Current use	Residential
Condition	Good
Protection	None
Comments
Between Asylum Road, Leo Street, Gervase Street and Drover's Place. This school has two distinct phases. The main three storey block, with the classroom façade to Leo Street, is in the grand late Bailey manner with a rooftop playground. The S wing is missing. This presents an imposing façade with liberal use of terracotta. The N wing (missing) has been replaced with a modern extension as part of the conversion to housing, which is good in terms of height and form, but the wrong colour. In many ways more interesting is the single storey 1900 block facing Asylum road (now numbers 71 to 77A Asylum Road). This is an attractive and forward looking piece of work in a mild art nouveau manner with stylish use of terracotta dressings around the entrances, with an Edwardian air.

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