The Elephant House, Camden, London



Architect
William Bradford
Date Built
1900
Location
Hawley Crescent
Description
This Grade II Listed building is a former bottle store for the Camden Brewery.  The name comes from the elephants head emblem of the brewery displayed in stone over the entrance.



The listing information describes the building as, " ... a two storey plus basement building with two parallel ranges under a double pitched roof running east-west along the curve of Hawley Crescent. The building is constructed of red brick on an engineering brick plinth with sandstone and rubbed brick detailing and renewed slate roofs."  On the inside it had, " ... concrete floors, with jack-arched vaulting to the ground floor, are supported by cast iron columns with bell capitals and concrete beams. Two original staircases, one of timber and the other of concrete with a metal balustrade, survive as do the timber roof trusses. In the Brewers Journal of 1901, the building was noted, unusually for a brewery building, as having lifts. The lift shafts survive, but the lifts themselves have been modernised."



In 2013 the building was refurbished by Hawkins/Brown to provide office space to the neighbouring Viacom building. 



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