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Nuffield Building
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- The Nuffield Building was erected (to plans prepared in 1962) as the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, for the study of disease in animals, with the Zoological Society of London's Meeting Rooms adjoining. The greater part of the building comprises research laboratories for what has now become part of the Institute of Zoology. The Zoological Society of London Meeting Rooms occupy the east part of the ground floor. Built 1964-65, Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks and Musgrave (Michael Huckstepp), architects.
The mobile was restored and rehung by Susan Tebby in July 2009.
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Education Department and Centre for Life Studies
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- The Zoo's Education Department and Centre for Life Studies is used for the education of school parties, teachers and others, including zoo staff. It is in the far north western corner of the Zoo ground, off the track of most visitors, and on a site that allows access outside of Zoo hours. Built 1973-1975, partly funded by the Wolfson Foundation; Sir Hugh Casson, Neville Conder and Partners (Anthony Reich), architects; W M Glendinning Limited, contractors. The two-storey north-west wing, the Centre for Life Studies, was an afterthought. It was originally an Inner London Education Authority Teachers' Centre and was designed with spaces for tuition, research and the accommodation of small animals
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East Service Gate Buildings
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- The East Service Gate is to the north of the Pavilion Building. To its east there is a lodge that was originally the Head Keeper's Quarters. Given its probable date of construction its architect may have been Anthony Salvin Junior. Latterly it has been used as a storage area and as meeting rooms. Lodge built 1863-64. Extended about 1909 when service gate was formed. West of the service entrance stands a simple brick shed which was built as a bakery for the nearby Regent and Pavilion Buildings, to replace the bakery in the basement of the Refreshment Rooms building (now the Parrot House). It was converted for use as a supplies building. Former bakery, 1929. Converted 1961-62.
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West Service Gate Buildings
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- The buildings around the West Service Gate, to the north of the Mappin Terraces, derive from a 1950 plan for a new service complex that was incorporated into the 1958 redevelopment scheme prepared under Sir Hugh Casson. They were the first part of this scheme to be executed as the shifting of supply and works functions from the Middle Gardens to this site made space available for the Cotton Terraces. Built 1951 and 1958-60, Franz Stengelhofen, architect. (Services Building and Garage, 1960. Works Department, 1958-59. Boiler House, 1951; Incinerator added 1959, replaced 1982.
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Gardening Department
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- The north bank of Regent's Canal, east of the East Footbridge, has been the site of greenhouses since about 1920; standing buildings are of 1963 and later. The Zoo's Gardening Department propagates plants here, including many exotic species, for the enclosures and the public spaces of the gardens. The greenhouses have been rebuilt with a brick stores range to the north.
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Keepers' Lodge
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- The Keepers' Lodge, built in 1903, is a divided block of staff housing. The east section consists of a house designed for a head keeper. The west section consists of lodgings (eight small bedrooms, a common room, bathroom and kitchen) intended for resident helpers.
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South Canal Bank Staff Flats
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- The South Canal Bank Staff Flats were built as part of the landscaping of the whole of the Zoo's south canal bank. They were needed because the contemporaneous development of the Cotton Terraces involved the demolition of a Superintendent's House. Built 1962-63, Franz Stengelhofen and Sir Peter Shepheard, architects.
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Zoo Sports and Social Club
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- The Sports and Social Club for the Zoo staff accommodated a bar, billiard room and caretaker's flat. Built 1963, Franz Stengelhofen, architect.
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Stealing the Cubs Statue
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- The statue entitled Stealing the Subs stands to the west of Three Island Pond. Carved from marble at larger than life size, it represents a man fighting a lioness over two lion cubs. In recent years the statue had been moved back from a more prominent position on a three-step plinth. Installed 1906, donated by J B Wolff; Henri Teixeira de Mattos, sculptor.
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War Memorial
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- A memorial to the employees of the Zoological Society of London killed on active service in World Wars I and II stands to the east of Three Island Pond, having been moved from a site near the Main Gate. Its design is taken from a medieval French Lanterne des Morts at La Souterraine, in the Creuse valley. It was installed in 1919, John James Joass, architect. Moved 1952.
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