LSE Old Building

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LSE Old Building

51°30′51″N 0°07′00″W / 51.514097°N 0.116777°W / 51.514097; -0.116777

The entrance to the Old Building on Houghton Street

The LSE Old Building is building on Houghton Street off Aldwych in central London that sits roughly in the centre of the London School of Economics's campus. Its construction in the 1920s marked the beginning of the school's expansion.[1][2]

Description

The building is part of a complex built through the 1920s and 1930s which marked the expansion of LSE. It was built with funds acquired by William Beveride from Beardsley Ruml, the director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund.[3] It was built to the designs of Trehearne & Norman who had developed much of the broader Kingsway and Aldwych area.[2] The foundation stone was placed by King George V in 1920 and construction was finished in 1926. It included the Founder's Room on the sixth floor which would host receptions and other events, which is now the Shaw Library.[4]

In the 2014 film Shadow Recruit, Jack Ryan is pictured walking out of the building.[5]

The building was refurbished by Hawkins\Brown in 2024.[6]

References

  1. ^ "LSE 1895". London School of Economics. 2000. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  2. ^ a b Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2005). Westminster. London (Repr. with corr ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-300-09595-1.
  3. ^ Dahrendorf, Ralf (1995-05-18), Dahrendorf, Ralf (ed.), "An Academic Miracle", LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995, Oxford University Press, p. 0, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202400.003.0003, ISBN 978-0-19-820240-0, retrieved 2026-08-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  4. ^ Reed, Hayley (2015-08-13). "Charlotte Shaw's LSE legacy - the Shaw Library - LSE History". LSE History - Explore the history of LSE. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  5. ^ Reed, Hayley (2016-02-22). "LSE on the big and the small screen - LSE History". LSE History - Explore the history of LSE. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
  6. ^ "LSE Old Building | Hawkins\Brown". Hawkins\Brown. Retrieved 2026-08-06.

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