Staple Inn Buildings North And South And Attached Railings

Staple Inn Buildings North and South, located at 335 and 336 High Holborn, were built around 1903 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse. These office buildings feature red brick with terracotta decorations and a granite-faced ground floor, topped with a slate roof in Jacobean style.

The High Holborn frontage of No. 335 is five storeys tall with an attic, showcasing three window bays, each with two lights, beneath a gable that includes a dormer and a scrolled pediment. The return elevation has an irregular layout with twelve bays. A polygonal corner turret is present, featuring pedimented loops and arched openings at the fourth floor, capped with a slated and lead pinnacle that has gabled windows. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front. The windows on the second, third, and fourth storeys are designed with transoms and mullions, complemented by pilasters and cornices, and enriched aprons below the attic and the third and fourth storeys.

No. 336 mirrors the design of No. 335 but is two storeys tall and has a four-bay extension at the north end. This extension includes a hall at the first floor level with pedimented windows and a bracketed parapet above, along with added ground floor windows. The entrances are segmental bowed and feature Doric columns in antis. The south elevation facing Staple Inn includes a terracotta plaque dated 1901 situated between two ground floor windows, with a four-light oriel above. The top storey has three square-headed lights in arched openings beneath a gable that includes a slit light.

The buildings also feature attached wrought iron railings to the areas.