Brandlehow School
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| Brandlehow Primary School | |
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Brandlehow Road , SW15 2ED England | |
| Coordinates | 51°27′41″N 0°12′25″W / 51.461370°N 0.206841°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Community school |
| Established | 1950 |
| Local authority | Wandsworth |
| Department for Education URN | 101001 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | James Lacey |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 3 to 11 |
| Enrollment | 305 |
| Capacity | 350 |
| Website | www |
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.[2]
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
Building
The existing building was designed by Ernő Goldfinger, it was built in 1950[2][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.[2]
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]
