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Pullman Court, Streatham. Image: © Christopher Hack. What s Pullman Court all about? A grade II listed estate, hugging one of south London s arterial roads. Who built it? Sir Frederick Gibberd the same architect responsible for London Central Mosque, next to Regent s Park. He s known best for his later projects now, which include three unusual, groundbreaking designs for religious buildings the mosque, Douai Abbey, a Benedictine Order abbey in Thatcham, and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The highest concentration of his work s scattered around Essex, in Harlow, where he acted as an urban planner but Pullman Court (completed in 1936) launched his career, and first established him a residential housing architect. He followed it up with Park Court in Sydenham (1936), and Ellington Court in Southgate (1937), a nonchalant three estates in as many years.

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