Bruce House

TQ 3081 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER KEMBLE STREET, WC2 60/9 14.1.70 Bruce House G.V. II Large lodging house. 1907 by W E Riley for London County Council. Red brick with some glazed brown brick and rendering, slate roof. Humane, Arts and Crafts Free Georgian design for a charitable lodging house, incorporating a former dispensary. The large block extends between Drury Lane and Kean Street. Principally of 5 storeys and basement with attic dormers in mansard and mansard gables. Slight asymmetry in the grouping of the 20-bay Kemble Street front with right hand half advanced. Semicircular arched entrance off centre in 1st bay of advance, large semicircular arched ground floor windows. Upper floor windows take the form of narrow 2-light recessed sashes. The rendered facing is applied to the top floor beneath the eaves. 2 mansard gabled attics with dormers between. Return to Drury Lane ends with a staircase tower and 2-storeyed oriel beyond. Lower north wing with return to Kean Street, of 4 storeys, basement and mansard, same details. Good Arts and Crafts area railings of elongated design with ball finialed standards.

Listing NGR: TQ3057681120