Keith Downes Young

Keith Downes Young (12 September 1848 - 1 December 1929) was an English architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria.

Biography Keith Downes Young was born in King's Road, Richmond, Surrey on 12 September 1848. He attended Tonbridge School, after which, in 1865, he was articled to his father, George Adam Young. He studied at South Kensington School of Art and the Architectural Association. By 1886 he had entered into partnership with the church architect, Henry Hall, and their practice acquired a reputation for designing hospitals and school sanatoria.

Young practiced for over fifty years, advising on approximately forty hospitals, either as new buildings or alterations, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Gray's Inn Road Maida Vale Hospital, Maida Vale Chest Hospital, Putney Miller Hospital, Greenwich Middlesex Hospital, Marylebone

School Sanatoria: Harrow School, Harrow Clifton College, Bristol Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury Sherborne School, Dorset Blundell's School, Tiverton

Other works: Evening Standard Building, Shoe Lane, City of London Dunsley Hall, near Whitby, North Yorkshire Extension to Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields

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