5 Lisle Street - Westminster, London, UK
N 51° 30.671 W 000° 07.885
30U E 699048 N 5710574
A building that started as a club, spent time as a hospital and is now offices.
Waymark Code: WMC4CC
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/24/2011
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Constructed in 1897 by Treadwell and Martin, built as the French Club. Painted terracotta. Unusual Franco-Flemish Renaissance appropriate to original use. storeys plus 2 attic storeys in gable. 5 windows wide. Rusticated ground floor has central columned portal and side entrances with half columns and obelisk finials, volute and strapwork crestings. Central 3 storey mullioned-transomed casement oriel with strapwork panelled aprons, flanking mullioned windows paired on 3rd floor. Stepped attic lights in ornate full width gable of 6 steps with side scrolls and crowning obelisk finial. Acquired and adapted by St. John's Hospital 1934-35.
Conspicuous elevation from Leicester Square closing Leicester Street vista.
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St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin
The Hospital management committee purchased this building, a house in the red light district of Soho, for £25,000. Alterations began to the building in the summer of 1935, estimated to cost £8,000, and the Hospital moved in at the end of the year.
The new premises opened to patients on 1st January 1936. The building had been so planned that the patients - some 1000 a week, could be dealt with rapidly. By 1938 the number attending had risen to 65,798.
The hospital closed in 1989.
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