Buildings on the Brink 2021

This is the 2021 edition of HLF and ACO’s list of 7 threatened heritage buildings in the City of London.  One of the messages evident in this year’s selection is the risk associated with development proposals and plans, such as the recent devastating experience with Camden Terrance on Talbot Street. Vacant or seemingly abandoned buildings may also be vulnerable.  The red barn at 247 Halls Mills Road shows, in the extreme, the results of neglect and non-use of valuable historic and heritage structures.  

First launched in 2006 by Heritage London Foundation the list brings attention to the state of significant heritage properties in the area that have been vacant for awhile and/or whose heritage value is at risk.

This year’s list is as follows and more details are on the page Buildings on The Brink.

  1. Gatehouse of the Elsie Perrin Williams Estate

  2. 176 Piccadilly Street

  3. 1588 Clarke Road

  4. Old Victoria Hospital Lands - South Street (2 buildings)

  5. Kent Brewery Site

  6. 93-95 Dufferin Ave

Heritage London Foundation is an innovative charitable organization founded in 1981 to maintain, preserve and establish viable contemporary uses for Elsie Perrin Williams Estate, Grosvenor Lodge and for other heritage building and properties in London.

ACO London Region is a volunteer-driven advocacy organization committed to conserving London’s heritage architecture through reuse and repurposing of older buildings and the active retention of the region’s unique history as embodied by its built heritage.

Marty Peterson