Lyndhurst Grove

Reviving a vacant Victorian corner pub as contemporary co-living, crowned by a zinc-clad mansard.

43 Lyndhurst Grove is a three-storey late-Victorian corner building at the junction of Lyndhurst Grove and Shenley Road in Peckham. Originally built as the Cadeleigh Arms public house with accommodation above, its chamfered corner, yellow stock brick with red brick detailing, and parapeted roofline give it a distinctive presence on the streetscape.

Stefan Shaw Studio secured planning permission in 2025 for a zinc-clad mansard extension on the building: a hard-won approval delivered through a carefully evidenced, design-led case that demonstrated the addition's fit with strong local precedent and its respect for the host building's Victorian character.

Building on that approval, the studio is now working with the private developer client to convert the whole building into a single co-living offer. The long-vacant former pub at ground and basement level is reactivated as the social heart of the scheme with shared amenity, lounge and workspace that reinstates an active corner frontage and returns life and surveillance to the street. Above, the existing HMO floors are reconfigured to a consistent co-living standard, with shared kitchens and living spaces threaded through each level and the new mansard floor integrated so the building reads as one managed operation from ground to roof. The result is a model for bringing tired, underused upper-floor and ex-pub stock back into high-quality, well-managed residential use, exactly the kind of gentle urban intensification that suits a well-connected, car-free corner like this.