Soup Kitchen For The Jewish Poor

The Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, located at 17-19 Brune Street, was built in 1902 by Lewis Solomon. This building features a brick structure with buff terracotta dressings and a slate roof. The ground floor is faced with terracotta, and the shop's detailing differs from that of the soup kitchen, with part of the shop entrance removed. However, much of the original wooden shop fronts and doors to the soup kitchen remain intact. A cornice above the soup kitchen is inscribed with 'Way Out/Soup Kitchen/5662. 1902/For the Jewish Poor/Way In'.

The upper storeys are enhanced by pilaster strips, a string course, and a cornice made of terracotta. The windows above the shop and staircase entrance have gauged brick segmental heads with terracotta keystones. The windows over the soup kitchen are tripartite, featuring thick terracotta mullions and either straight heads made of terracotta or segmental heads with terracotta and gauged brick voussoirs. There is also a Diocletian window in the attic, adorned with terracotta and gauged brick voussoirs, topped with a terracotta pediment flanked by volutes. The mansard roof includes three sets of dormer windows.

Inside the soup kitchen, the original layout remains largely unchanged. The 'queuing room' by the entrance is preserved, although two original doors have been closed up and a new one has been opened to the hall. The original white tiled walls are still visible, but the queuing barriers have been removed. The committee room to the west of the hall survives, except for the loss of partitions. The kitchen at the rear of the site remains as an open space without the original counter and cooking equipment, but the original timber-roof structure and a lantern of four bays with decorative cast iron spandrels are still present.