ACM CLADDING RECORDS

Co-operative House

Building / block / estate

Co-operative House

Address

249-267 Rye Lane, London SE15 4UR

Local Authority

Southwark

Storeys / height

Form is known: ‘Co-operative House is made of four buildings forming a horseshoe shape,
(ACM candidates) NOT FOUND in metres or storeys. Form is known: ‘Co-operative House is made of four buildings forming a horseshoe shape, which lets sunlight pour into its courtyard and communal space from the south east’, containing 122 flats (Southwark News, 23/11/2017). OVER 18m: CANNOT TELL. NB the ‘five-storey and six-storey’ figures in that article belong to a PROPOSED NEIGHBOURING scheme by Londonewcastle, not to this building

Cladding

ACM (named in planning application: Removal of ACM cladding to front elevation of the entirety of Co-operative House)

Owner / Landlord

Original design architect

NOT FOUND for either the 2008 building or the 1932 store

Remediation ref/date

19/AP/0966 29/03/2019

  • Removal of ACM cladding to front elevation of the entirety of Co-operative House 249-267 Rye Lane (Beige and green cladding) and replacement with A1/A2 fire rated materials in colours to match existing with identical grid patterns, and finish.
  • Co-Operative House 265 Rye Lane London SE15 4UR

Remediation lead

Architect: Stock Woolstencroft

Litigation

Source / Evidence / Links

  • (Master ACM building list) Removal of ACM cladding to front elevation of the entirety of Co-operative House
  • (ACM candidates) MEDIUM-HIGH that the present building is c.2008 (two independent sources plus the inscribed dates and the four-block horseshoe plan). NIL on architect. ROUTE LEFT: RIBApix record riba58728, ‘Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Ltd., Rye Lane, Camberwell, London: the entrance’, which 403s to automated fetching and needs a real browser. NOTE the RACS architect named on Wikipedia, Frank Bethell, is tied to the Central Stores and Bostall Estate 1900-1914 and NOT to Rye Lane; and S. W. Ackeroyd’s 1938 Powis Street store in Woolwich is a DIFFERENT building
  • Workbook source(s): Master ACM building list (row 115); ACM candidates (row 14)

2008 the date the CURRENT BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED (London Postcode Walks, 31/12/2017). Derek Kinrade’s ‘Rye Lane: A Short History’ for Peckham Vision: ‘In 1932 the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society built the prestigious Co-operative House (nos.259-267), remodelled on a store that had opened in 1913’. The Peckham Society in 2008 called it a conversion but also said the developers ‘have replicated some of the Co-operative House, in part, on the new development’, which points to new build with replicated fabric. SO: c.2008 NEW BUILD, not a 1913 shell

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