[39126] Bloomsbury : London House

London House, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1, 1935-63.

Goodenough College - a postgraduate residence and educational trust.

By Sir Herbert Baker & Alexander T Scott, and their successor Vernon Helbing. It was completed in three stages.

Grade ll listed.

This is Mecklenburgh Square elevation,

 

London House was established in 1931 by the Chairman of Barclays Bank and founder of Barclays DC&O, Frederick Craufurd Goodenough (1866-1934) - who raised the funds with which to found the Dominion Students' Hall Trust - as a place where students from the British Empire could live a collegiate life.

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