- Leopold Buildings
Leopold Buildings is a well-known historic tenement block of flats in
Bethnal Green in the East End of London, England.The flats were built in 1872 by
The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company , the philanthropic housing company founded and chaired bySir Sydney Waterlow . It was built on land leased byAngela Burdett-Coutts - then the richest woman in Britain, nicknamed 'The Queen of the Poor'.The buildings are located on Columbia Road, near the famous
Columbia Road Market , which is in theLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets .The buildings were Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1994. Following years of neglect, the block was completely refurbished in a £3.5 million project in 1997 by the Floyd Laski practice for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Ujima Housing Association, in conjunction with
English Heritage .External links
* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museumstudies/websites07/sparkes History of Leopold Buildings including images of original plans]
* [http://www.floydslaski.co.uk/PAGE%20Leopold%20Projects.htm Description of 1997 refurbishment by Floyds Laski architects]
* [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=441467 English Heritage Listing]
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