A green where Georgian terraces meet a teaching hospital and an art college, with postwar towers behind.
What Camberwell looks like
is a triangular common where several main roads meet, a strip of lawn and mature plane trees between the traffic lanes. Cream stuccoed Georgian buildings curve around its southern side, ground floors converted into pubs and shopfronts under green tiled fascias.
North of the green, climbs in London stock brick, its earliest terraces dating from the 1770s. The houses run three storeys over a basement, faced in amber brick with red brick dressings and coped parapets, arched ground floor windows set behind black iron railings. and Grove Park carry the same Georgian scale a few streets over, corner houses in dark stock brick and white stucco with pedimented doorcases.
runs in red brick along Denmark Hill, a mix of Victorian and postwar blocks behind hoardings and mature trees. An art college occupies a Victorian building on Peckham Road east of the green, sharing its site with the South London Gallery next door.
Behind the Georgian streets, postwar estates step up in concrete and cream panel, tower blocks rising over the lower terraces. Near the green, Denmark Hill's shopfronts are close set and mixed. A bubble tea shop and a phone repair shop sit beside an amusement arcade, cycle racks and A-boards crowding the pavement.
Shot in Camberwell
The BBC series Luther used 64 Camberwell Grove as a flat exterior, one of the amber brick Georgian terraces north of the green. King's College Hospital, on Denmark Hill, filmed Channel 4's documentary series 24 Hours in A&E for its first six series before the production moved to Tooting.
Luther
The Camberwell Grove flat
The production used 64 Camberwell Grove as the exterior of a flat, one of the terraced Georgian houses partway up the street from the green. The block runs continuously in the same amber brick and red dressings for several doors either side. Street View
What Camberwell can double for
Canning in Liverpool, Merseyside
Liverpool's Canning conservation area is built of the same brick Georgian terrace, three storeys over a basement with coped parapets and iron railings, close in scale to Camberwell Grove. Falkner Street and Rodney Street carry the closest matches. Liverpool's stone door surrounds tend heavier than Camberwell's, so tighter frames on the brick and railings hold the match better than a full facade. Try searching Georgian brick terrace street now.
Clifton's cream stuccoed Regency terraces match the buildings curving around Camberwell Green rather than the brick of the Grove. Caledonia Place and the streets off it have the same scale of pedimented doorcase and iron balcony. Clifton's hillside gradients are steeper than Camberwell's flat green, so a level street needs picking out in advance. Try searching cream stuccoed Regency terraces now.
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's Georgian squares share the scale and railings of Addington Square, with the same arched ground floor openings. The brick runs redder and the doorcases carry more colour than Camberwell's. A brightly painted door gives Dublin away at a glance, so a production would need to dress or avoid the doors to hold the match. Try searching Georgian square with railings now.
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