The Studio Including Attached Railings

The Studio is a technical institute, later used as an art centre, built in 1898 for Beckenham Urban District Council. The architect was J A Angell, and the builder was T W Jones. It was designed in a Dutch style. The principal elevations face east and south and are constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings, while the other elevations are mainly of stock brick. The roof is now covered with 20th-century cement tiles, but retains the original brick chimney stacks and a central, octagonal cupola with a lead base. The cupola is decorated with chevrons, wooden arches, a dome, and a metal weathervane.

The east or entrance front has two storeys and a basement, with five windows. A full-height central bay features an elaborate curved open pediment pierced by an obelisk. The first floor has a triple mullioned and transomed window with a curved fanlight above, and a doorcase with engaged columns, a round-headed fanlight, and six-panelled double doors. Attached steps have brick and terracotta piers and balustrading with ball finials and elaborate cast iron railings. The adjoining bays are recessed, with triple mullioned windows to the first floor and mullioned and transomed windows to the ground floor, all with terracotta aprons. The end bays have projecting gables crowned by smaller terracotta open pediments. First-floor windows are four-light mullioned and transomed with curved heads and terracotta panels, with the left panel inscribed "Science" and the right panel “Art". Ground-floor windows are also four-light mullioned and transomed.

The south side has three bays with a similar gable to the east side, featuring four-light windows. A central square turret is topped with a pyramidal roof and crenellated parapet, containing a triple window to the first floor and a round-headed terracotta hood supported on decorated brackets above a doorcase below. A large left-side gable has an elaborate, tall first-floor mullioned and transomed window with an oculus above, and a six-light mullioned and transomed window below. The north elevation is of stock brick with red brick dressings and is plainer, with four sash windows without glazing bars on the ground floor, and four 20th-century metal windows on the first floor of an art studio. The west elevation is partly of red brick and partly of stock brick. The interior was not inspected.