13, Drury Lane

No. 13 Drury Lane is a tower house built around 1900 by architect Richard Harding Watt. The building features painted brickwork and a low pyramidal slate roof that overhangs on struts, showcasing a severe Germanic style. It stands four storeys tall with an open upper storey. The entrance is arched and located in the return elevation, while the upper storey has narrow paired windows, and the ground and first floors have single-light windows. There is a small two-storeyed cottage extension beyond the return elevation, which includes a full-height squared bay window. To the left, there is a high entrance arch in a wall with a hipped roof that also overhangs on struts, leading to a wide segmentally-arched entrance with wooden main and side gates adorned with Art Nouveau-style ironwork. The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the tower was part of a complex that included a laundry and workers' cottages, established by Watt on the site of a former dye works and tannery. This building is part of a notable development in Free Style commissioned by Richard Harding Watt.