Description

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MORTIMER STREET W1
(north side)

46/32 Nos.42 and 44 (including
Nos. 37 to 41, odd,
Great Titchfield Street
5.2.70 and No.1A Little
Titchfield Street).

- II

Large corner block of shops and flats. C1904 by Beresford Pite, built as Youth
Hostel. Banded red brick with restrained use of Portland stone dressings, slate
roof, in Beresford Pite's individual Arts and Crafts manner. 4 storeys, basement
and 2 tiers of dormers in gable end roofs. Long 9-bay range to Great Titchfield
Street and 3 bay returns. Central pedimented doorway to Mortimer Street flanked
by shop windows. Strong vertical emphasis to composition of facades with narrow
through-storey oriels and attenuated through-storey shallow arcades framing
cambered arched sash windows. Parapet with coping carried up gable ends and
vertical emphasis continued through dormers to lofty panelled chimney stacks.
Plain area railings. L.C.C. plaque on No. 44 records residence and death of
Joseph Nollekens in a house on this site.

Listing NGR: TQ2908581537

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 42 And 44, Mortimer Street W1 at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q27080853

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