St Mungo'S Housing

St Mungo's Housing, formerly known as St Giles in the Fields Church of England Primary School, is a Grade II listed building located at 83 Endell Street in Camden. Built in 1860 by E.M. Barry, this former school now serves as a hostel for the homeless. The building is designed in a tough Gothic revival style, constructed from polychrome brick with some terracotta and stone dressings, and topped with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan situated at the corner of Endell Street and High Holborn.

The entrance front faces Endell Street and features four storeys, a basement, and dormers. The ground floor is made of yellow stock brick with red brick bands, showcasing paired pointed-arch windows and a centrally placed doorway with a fanlight, flanked by stone elements and inscribed with "NATIONAL SCHOOLS." A string course at the first floor level supports recessed square-headed windows with brick mullions, beneath a continuous band of decorative blue and red tiles. On the second floor, to the left, there is a pair of pointed-arch windows adorned with decorative terracotta tiles and a marble colonnette. To the right, three identical pointed-arch windows are set beneath an asymmetrically placed gable, which features two lancet windows with a marble colonnette and an oculus above, all under a pointed terracotta arch. The apex of the gable includes a trefoil window in a pointed arch, with vertical brick features rising on either side. The third floor consists of a mostly blind arcade of pointed arches that extends to the eaves level. The return on High Holborn mirrors the fenestration and dressings of the main façade, with two large dormers and several smaller ones scattered throughout.

While the interior has been altered, it still retains some original features. Historically, this building was constructed as parish schools for 1,500 children, along with an industrial school and a soup kitchen for the impoverished residents of the Drury Lane slums.