Castle Lane ← Works ← Henley Halebrown

Castle Lane London 2011–2026

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.

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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.
The facades of the roof extension provide large expanses of floor to ceiling glazing.
The restored entrances invite socialising
The new precast elements mimic the original buildings’ stringcourse and cornice designs.
Ground floor plan
Lower ground floor
Community gardens on the lower ground floor
The North block was reworked with access provided by land sculpting, along with an external lift and decks
The design references the industrial heritage of the brewery with robust steelwork hung on slender tension rods from the new roof structure installed to take the new extensions
Loggias providing individual entrances to flats
To gain additional accommodation, a new roofscape was added

architects Henley Halebrown

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