London College of Furniture

The London College of Furniture, originally known as the Shoreditch Training College, was built in 1825 by D R Roper and was formerly the Haberdashers' Almshouses. This building has two storeys, an attic, and a basement. It features a central projecting tetrastyle portico with a pediment, decorative wreaths in the frieze, and fluted Doric columns. The central entrance has doors set in a moulded architrave. On either side of the entrance, there is a four-window section and a one-window projecting end wing. The building has a slated mansard roof with round-headed dormers. Constructed from yellow stock brick, it includes a stone frieze, cornice, and parapet. The sash windows, which have glazing bars in stucco-lined reveals, are tripartite on the ground floor of the wings. The ground floor windows and doors in the outer bays of the link sections also have moulded stone architraves. There are five steps leading up to the stylobate of the portico, which has side walls with iron lampholders. Low stone piers support modern area railings.