Leopold Buildings

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Leopold Buildings is a well-known historic tenement block of flats in Bethnal Green in the East End of London, England.

The flats were built in 1872 by The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, the philanthropic Model dwellings company founded and chaired by Sir Sydney Waterlow. It was built on land leased by Angela Burdett-Coutts - then the richest woman in Britain, nicknamed 'The Queen of the Poor'.

The buildings are located on Columbia Road, near the famous Columbia Road Market, which is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The buildings were Grade II listed by English Heritage in 1994. Following years of neglect, the block was completely refurbished in a £3.5 million project in 1997 by the Floyd Slaski practice for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Ujima Housing Association, in conjunction with English Heritage.

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Coordinates: 51°31′41″N 0°04′30″W / 51.5280°N 0.0750°W / 51.5280; -0.0750

Model Dwellings

Private model dwellings companies	Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company Chester Cottage Improvement Company East End Dwellings Company Edinburgh Co-Operative Building Company Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes Newcastle upon Tyne Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Pilrig Model Dwellings Company Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes

Charitable model dwellings trusts	Peabody Trust Guinness Trust William Sutton Trust

Model villages in the UK	Akroydon Bessbrook Blaise Hamlet Bournville Copley Creswell Laurelvale Meltham Milford Nenthead New Bolsover New Earswick New Lanark Portlaw Port Sunlight Railway Village Saltaire Selworthy Silver End Sion Mills Snelston Stewartby Tremadog Trowse Woodlands, South Yorkshire

Model dwellings for the poor	Gibson Gardens Katharine Buildings Leopold Buildings Noel Park Queen's Park Shaftesbury Park Stockbridge Colonies

See also	Model dwellings companies List of existing model dwellings Model villages Colony houses