Flats to rent in Walworth London SE17

There is an interesting mix of housing in SE17. Unexplained survivals from Georgian times meet partial Victorian terraces and in their view are low and high rise flats If there is a half to the postcode which came best out of post war reconstruction, it is the western half, between Walworth Road and Kennington Park Road. The northern edge of this half, hard by the Elephant, is the relatively successful Newington Estate, nearly all houses in short terraces facing in all sorts of directions with generous amounts of open land. The southern edge are the depressing Brandon and Wyndham Estates, the former in particular a wasteland. In between are a conglomerate of Victorian terraces and modern houses, some in short streets and some in squares. Kennington Park has kept hold of some Victorian terraces and mansion blocks from the Edwardian era and the Fifties complete the parkside picture. Between Walworth Road and Old Kent Road we have the Sixties/Seventies brutalist paradises of the Heygate Estate by the Elephant and the Aylesbury Estate by Burgess Park. The Aylesbury has been saved from full scale demolition but much of it will still go. The Heygate was due to be completely wiped off the face of the earth but the collapse of the Elephant and Castle regeneration plan in 2002 will have put such ambitious schemes in jeopardy. In between these are a warren of streets with East Street Market at its core. There are many partial Victorian survivals amongst the impromptu car parks and unused bomb-damage ground, often in dark red brick. There are even a few Georgian leftovers in Surrey Square and Bartholomew Street. New life is flickering here in the conversion of a school, a pub, some new housing and the rebuild of 68 Victorian terraces with all mod cons.