“An airy apartment with remarkable views towards some of the capital's most striking architecture”
This brilliantly bright one-bedroom apartment is set amidst iconic London landmarks on the banks of the River Thames. The airy living room looks out across the river to St Paul's and the City, while the dining area has a vantage point over the courtyards of Tate Modern. Falcon Point is a wonderful example of the architecture and construction undertaken by the London County Council through the 1960s and 1970s and has become a landmark building along this stretch of the South Bank.
History
Falcon Point's name derives from the notorious Falcon Inn that stood on the eastern side of the site in the 16th century. Enmeshed in London’s most-fabled periods of history, Samuel Pepys records that he sat here with a pint of ale watching the Great Fire of London blaze across the city. The inn’s proximity to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has led some to speculate that the Falcon Inn was also a local for the Bard himself.
As the centuries progressed, the riverfront became an area of wharves, warehouses, and trade ports. But in 1947, the tides were shifting, and the Corporation of the City of London was envisaging riverside open space as part of the candidly titled ‘Plan’, which never saw action. Industry cleared out as trade shifted east, and in 1971 the London Borough of Southwark began strategising the development of a mixed-use space with offices, hotels, and houses.
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