Metro Central Heights

Metro Central Heights is a group of residential buildings in Walworth in the London Borough of Southwark. It was originally known as Alexander Fleming House, a multi-storey office complex designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger and constructed in the early 1960s for Arnold Lee of Imry Properties.

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Type: Apartment building
Description: grade II listed building in London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom
Also known as: “Alexander Fleming House” and “מטרו סנטרל הייטס”
Address: 327-413, 119 Newington Causeway

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Elephant & Castle tube station and Imperial War Museum.

Elephant & Castle tube station

Metro station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Elephant & Castle is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark in Central London. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between Borough and Kennington stations. Elephant & Castle tube station is situated 530 feet southwest of Metro Central Heights.

Imperial War Museum

Museum

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The Imperial War Museum, currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum. Its headquarters are in London, with five branches in England. Imperial War Museum is situated 2,200 feet west of Metro Central Heights.

Elephant & Castle railway station

Railway station

Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Elephant & Castle railway station is a National Rail station in Newington, south London. Along with the London Underground station of the same name, it is located in the London Borough of Southwark and is in both London fare zone 1 and 2. Elephant & Castle railway station is situated 670 feet south of Metro Central Heights.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elephant and Castle and Heygate Estate.

Elephant and Castle

Suburb

Photo: Sue Wallace, CC BY 2.0.

Elephant and Castle is an area of south London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. The name also informally refers to much of Walworth and Newington, due to the proximity of the London Underground station of the same name.

Heygate Estate

Locality

Photo: London SE1 Community Website, CC BY 2.0.

The Heygate Estate was a large housing estate in Walworth, Southwark, South London, comprising 1,214 homes, designed by architects Tim Tinker and Roger Westman.

St George’s Circus

Locality

Photo: Martin Addison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St George's Circus is a road junction in Southwark, London, England. At its centre, which is now a traffic roundabout, is an historic obelisk, designed by Robert Mylne, in his role as surveyor and architect of Blackfriars Bridge.

Metro Central Heights

Categories: building and residential building
Location: London Borough of Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.49588° or 51° 29′ 45″ north

Longitude

-0.09888° or 0° 5′ 56″ west

Levels

Open location code

9C3XFWW2+9F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 451796438

OpenStreetMap feature

building=apartments

Wikidata ID

Q6824538

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In Other Languages

From French to Turkish—“Metro Central Heights” goes by many names.

French: “Metro Central Heights”
Hausa: “Metro Central Heights”
Hebrew: “בית אלכסנדר פלמינג”
Italian: “Metro Central Heights”
Turkish: “Metro Central Heights”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: The Rockingham Arms and Barefoot Yoga.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Metro Central Heights and Betfred.

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