In 2014 the South London Gallery was given the former Peckham Road Fire Station by an anonymous donor.Built in 1867, one year after the formation of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the station was decommissioned in 1925 (a new fire station opened one door down on the corner of Talfourd Street and Peckham Road). The building was sold to Kennedy's, a local butcher and pie-maker, who owned it until 2007 when the company ceased trading. By 2014, it was semi-derelict and was in need of comprehensive restoration. Following extensive planning and community consultation the SLG started building work in March 2017. The project included major support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Mayor of London and Arts Council England.With designs by award-winning 6a architects, the Fire Station is now a mixed-use building over four floors, maintaining the original layout of rooms as far as possible. It opened as the SLG's annexe in September 2018.

Interviews were conducted as part of 'The Peckham Experiment: A Centre for Self-Organisation', a Heritage Lottery funded project led by the Art Assassins (the SLG's young people's group) working with the Pioneer Health Foundation (PHF), the Wellcome Library and the Science Gallery at Kings College, as well as Peckham Vision and the Wilderness Wood.The Peckham Experiment was a pioneering health movement founded by doctors George Scott Williamson and Innes Hope Pearse in 1925. They believed that through a holistic approach to healthy living, well-being and social interaction, disease and illness would be reduced. Initiated twenty-three years before the establishment of the NHS, the Peckham Experiment offered bespoke on-the-doorstep healthcare and support for the whole family. It was run out of the Pioneer Health Foundation, firstly on Queen's Road Peckham and later in a purpose-built space on St Mary's Road.

Part of the South London Gallery's Evidence of Us heritage programme.Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum opened on Peckham Road in 1846. By 1878 it was the second largest asylum in London, licensed to accommodate 362 patients. It closed in 1955 and the buildings became council offices, while the grounds on the north side of Peckham Road became part of the new Sceaux Gardens estate.In 2011, some of the former asylum buildings were converted into UAL Camberwell School of Art student accommodation. It was during the building work that Sceaux Gardens resident and South London Gallery volunteer Liz Sibthorpe found a mustard spoon lying in a pile of recently upturned earth. It bore the initials ‘C H’. Over the next few weeks Liz excavated a large collection of other objects from Camberwell House including keys, rings, shards of pottery, buttons, and even dolls, which prompted her to carry out her own research into the organisation.