Castle Lane London 2011–

The adaptive reuse of these four blocks creates 88 affordable homes and forms part of Landsec's redevelopment of Victoria Street. The design works with the buildings’ loadbearing internal walls to achieve the required mix with minimal structural alteration.

These “Unlisted Buildings of Merit” are in Westminster’s Birdcage Walk Conservation Area.

Image 1

  • 1106_N132_medium
    Castle Lane Working Men's club (left) and Castle Lane (right)
  • 9_1106_View2.jpg
    The facades of the roof extension provide large expanses of floor to ceiling glazing.
  • 1106_N136.jpg
    Victorian glass and cast iron engineering structures provide the inspiration for the evenly spaced and narrow proportioned modules of the new attic storey.
  • 1106 b/w
    Constructed in the 1880s for the Stag Brewery, the buildings are late examples of purpose built working class housing. A mews building was added in 1991. Most recently they were used as hostel accommodation.
  • 9_1106_View3.jpg
    The chimneys that distinguish the original buildings' skyline are raised above new decorative precast elements, preserving their silhouette. The new precast elements mimic the original buildings’ stringcourse and cornice designs.
  • 9_1106_View5.jpg
    The former Castle Lane Working Men's Club has been converted to a residence.
  • 9_1106_SK_261_Upper-floor.jpg
    Proposed ground floor plan.
  • 9_1106_View4.jpg
    View of the Alexandra Block seen from Palace Street.
  • 1106_N131_medium
    North Block Courtyard

Technical

  • Appointment: 2011
  • Construction start: 2015
  • Area: 5700m2
  • Budget: £22m
  • Form of contract: Design & Build
  • Client: Landsec
  • Services Engineer: Chapman & BDSP
  • Structural Engineer: Clarke Nicholls & Marcell
  • Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership
  • Landscape Architect: Plincke
  • Planning Consultant: Gerald Eve
  • Heritage Consultants: Montague Evans
Top ↑