The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
Record No
107507
Title
The Wellcome Institute Building in Euston Road
Description
View of The Wellcome Research Institution Building, later 'The Wellcome Trust', and home of the Wellcome Collection at 183 to 193 Euston Road in the former Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, looking south. The Classical Revival building was designed by the architect Septimus Warwick and constructed by Trollope & Colls c1932. The five-storey building with basement and attic rooms, is made of Portland stone with ashlar banding at the ground floor. Doric fluted columns over the middle three floors, topped by a pediment over the middle three bays, Roman balustrading above the parapet cornice, and dormer windows in the mansard roof. Unity House, and Drayton House are just visible to the right and left of the picture, respectively. The building features bronze torchieres either side of the single entrance door and flood lamps at the corners, above the entrance vestibule. The entrance to the Wellcome Collection has since been remodelled with three entrance doors, with an 'Eye of Horus' design in the transom light above the central double doors. A central traffic island in Euston Road with a cast-iron lamppost protected by cast-iron bollards, is visible, along with a kerbside metal bunker.
Date of execution
1948
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
- Updated 2010 10 28
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_339_F4509
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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