United Standard House, Aldgate 1972

United Standard House was a mid-20th century office block located in Aldgate, on the eastern edge of the City of London. The building was designed by architect J. Ockwell of the firm R. Seifert & Partners around 1960 and constructed during the mid-1960s. It stood on a site that had been heavily bomb-damaged during the Second World War, lying between Goulston Street and Middlesex Street, near Petticoat Lane Market.

The building took its name from its primary occupant, the United Standard Insurance Company. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, it housed a range of businesses connected with London’s insurance and maritime trades, reflecting Aldgate’s continuing role as a centre of commercial activity just outside the core of the City.

By the 2000s, the building had become vacant, alongside Cromlech House, as new development pressures began to reshape the Aldgate area. Cromlech House was eventually redeveloped as a Travelodge, while plans for United Standard House were folded into larger regeneration projects connected to the Middlesex Street Estate and the modern transformation of Aldgate.