London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: Keppel Street

I never have my zoom lens with me whenever I go past LSHTM, finally I did have it and got some good shots of these tropical insects. They adorn the balconies.

 

I'm not 100% sure about the insects but I think that ....

1 Bed Bug 2 House Fly 3 Louse

4 Flea 5 Malaria Carrying Mosquito 6 Tick

 

Grade II listed.

School of Medicine. 1926-8. By P Morley Horder and V Rees. Steel frame construction, faced with Portland stone. Stripped Classical style. Entrance block to Keppel Street, rest of building laid out to the north in an H-plan.http://www.flickr.com/photos/47071837@N02/6152283055/in/photostream/

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Keppel Street facade 11 windows, the end bays recessed. Return to Malet Street 23 windows, the left hand 3 bays projecting; return to Gower Street 24 windows, the right hand 3 bays projecting. Main entrance square headed and architraved with a central carving of entwined serpents supporting a panel showing Aesculapius in his chariot. Metal framed, square-headed casement windows, those on ground and 1st floor architraved. Entrance block 1st floor windows with metal balconies decorated with gilded tropical insects. Frieze with names of eminent medical scientists set between vestigial pilaster capitals with laurel wreaths. Cornice and blind attic storey above (fenestrated on returns). At the right-hand angle of the entrance block a foundation stone laid by the Rt Hon Neville Chamberlain, 7

July 1926. British Listed Buildings

 

 

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