Collapsed building: the semi-detached house on St Denys Close in Purley this morning
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters tackled a house fire on St Denys Close in Purley last night.
Most of the semi-detached house, in a cul de sac just off Pampisford Road, was damaged by the fire.
The first and second floors to the right-hand side of the building partially collapsed. A 25-metre cordon was put in place as a precaution and 20 people were evacuated from adjacent properties.
A man left the building before the Brigade arrived and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The alarm was raised at 6.02pm, and fire under control by 8.42pm. Crews from Purley, Wallington, Croydon and Woodside fire stations attended.
“The cause of the fire is under investigation,” the London Fire Brigade said this morning.
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Seems to be an unusal collapse for a building built to the building standards of what looks like the 1980/90 period would suffer due to fire.
The residents’ management company was registered in 2010, which suggests that the houses there are less than 20 years old and were constructed under 21st Century building regs.
Timber frame with tile / brick cladding, not unusual in modern construction.
But If a fire gets through the plasterboard into the timber frame, the strength is lost.