London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine And Attached Walls And Railings

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, built between 1926 and 1928 by architects P Morley Horder and V Rees, is a school of medicine constructed with a steel frame and faced with Portland stone in a stripped Classical style. The building features an entrance block facing Keppel Street, with the rest of the structure laid out to the north in an H-plan.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic. The facade on Keppel Street has 11 windows, with the end bays recessed. The return to Malet Street has 23 windows, with the left-hand three bays projecting, while the return to Gower Street has 24 windows, with the right-hand three bays projecting. The main entrance is square-headed and architraved, featuring a central carving of entwined serpents that support a panel depicting Aesculapius in his chariot. The building has metal framed, square-headed casement windows, with those on the ground and first floors being architraved. The first-floor windows of the entrance block have metal balconies adorned with gilded tropical insects. A frieze displaying the names of eminent medical scientists is set between vestigial pilaster capitals decorated with laurel wreaths. Above is a cornice and a blind attic storey, which is fenestrated on the returns. At the right-hand angle of the entrance block, there is a foundation stone laid by the Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain on 7 July 1926.

The building also features attached stone walls with plain railings of horizontal bands on the returns. The interior was not inspected.