Carmelite House

Carmelite House
Carmelite House
	Carmelite House
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	Neo-Tudor
Location	London, England
Coordinates	51°30′42″N 0°06′26″W / 51.511661°N 0.107131°W
Completed	1899
Design and construction
Architect	Herbert Owen Ellis
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Carmelite House
Designated	10 November 1977
Reference no.	1064727

Carmelite House is a Grade II listed office building near Fleet Street in London. It was built as a printing-house, and hosted a number of publishers and newspapers.

History

The building was constructed between 1897 and 1899. It was one of many print offices built in the area, nearby to Fleet Street, the centre of the London print trade, following encouragement from the City of London Corporation for the sake of street improvements. Other examples are the nearby Temple House and Former Argus Printing Company Building. The building was devised as a combined offices and newspaper factory, the oldest survivor of its kind in the area. It was designed by Herbert Owen Ellis for Lord Northcliffe's Associated Newspapers.

The building hosted the offices of the Daily Mail and The Mail, managed by the Associated Newspapers until they moved to their current headquarters in Kensington.

Design

The building is of red-brick with stone detailing, built in a Neo-Tudor style. Its design is complementary of Telephone House which it adjoins. A notable feature is the large corner tower surmounted by a steep octagonal slate roof and ogee lantern above. A 1936 extension has since been demolished.

References

↑ "Carmelite House, Non Civil Parish - 1064727 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
↑ "Former Argus Printing Company, Non Civil Parish - 1375288 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
1 2 City of London Corporation (2016-02-23). "Whitefriars Conservation Area" (PDF). www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
1 2 Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002). The City of London (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 447–448. ISBN 978-0-300-09624-8.
↑ Ponsford, Dominic (2005-05-19). "The last to leave". Press Gazette. Retrieved 2026-08-19.

[1] "Carmelite House, Non Civil Parish - 1064727 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.

[2] "Former Argus Printing Company, Non Civil Parish - 1375288 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.

[:0-3] 1 2 City of London Corporation (2016-02-23). "Whitefriars Conservation Area" (PDF). www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-18.

[:12-4] 1 2 Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002). The City of London (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 447–448. ISBN 978-0-300-09624-8.

[5] Ponsford, Dominic (2005-05-19). "The last to leave". Press Gazette. Retrieved 2026-08-19.