Your building
A building with character no new tower can give you.
Your team walks through private gates into a Victorian school with ceilings over four metres and windows on every side. It has the volume, light and story that make people proud to bring visitors here.
A whole plot to yourself, in the middle of Shoreditch.
The site holds a striking Victorian school, a later building joined to it, and a small period building on the corner of New Inn Street. Together they sit on 0.19 hectares bounded by Curtain Road, Bateman's Row and New Inn Street, with entrances from all three.
The building is not listed and benefits from a certificate of immunity from listing, which gives real freedom to adapt it for a modern headquarters while respecting its character.
History
A story your team will tell visitors.
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1577
The Curtain Theatre
James Burbage built the Curtain Theatre just behind the site, near New Inn Yard. Shakespeare's company performed here before the Globe, and some of the earliest performances of Romeo and Juliet and Henry V took place on its stage. The street takes its name from it.
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19th c.
An almshouse, then a school
The site began as a Victorian almshouse, a charitable home for the poor, before it was replaced by the Shoreditch Girls' Technical School, on a street then famous for its furniture trade.
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20th c.
London College of Fashion
The building became one of the homes of the London College of Fashion, part of the University of the Arts London, teaching textiles, millinery and garment design.
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2023
A new chapter
The college moved to its new campus at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, leaving the building vacant and ready for its next life.
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2028
A headquarters
Restored and extended for a single occupier, with practical completion targeted for the second quarter of 2028.
Inside today
Space like this is few and far between.
The facts
The building today.
These are the existing areas before any work. The vision adds a new core, an extra storey and new outdoor space to create a headquarters of 31,000+ sq ft.
See what it becomes- Existing net internal area
- 27,576 sq ft
- Floors
- Basement, ground and three upper floors, with mezzanines
- Floor to ceiling
- Over 4m
- Site
- 0.19 hectares
- Entrances
- Curtain Road, Bateman's Row and New Inn Street
- Status
- Vacant
In three dimensions
See the whole site, from every side.
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Footprints from OpenStreetMap. Heights and the proposed additions are schematic and not to scale.