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Latitude: 51.5075 / 51°30'27"N
Longitude: -0.131 / 0°7'51"W
OS Eastings: 529803
OS Northings: 180387
OS Grid: TQ298803
Mapcode National: GBR GF.RS
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PC2P
Plus Code: 9C3XGV59+2H
Entry Name: 125, Pall Mall SW1
Listing Date: 20 June 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1225925
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422830
ID on this website: 101225925
Location: Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Martin-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Embassy
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1
82/35 (south side)
20.6.73 No. 125
G.V. II
Office block. 1912-13 by H.R. Houchin and Frank Smee: Portland stone,
copper dome. Eclectic Baroque for narrow but very prominent frontage
closing Haymarket vista. 5 storeys as: podium ground floor with mezzanine
and 3 main storeys and 2 tier attics under dome. 2 windows wide with one
major bay on Pall Mall alignment and one narrow bay on splay aligned with
Cockspur Street. Rusticated framework to ground and mezzanine with altered
mid C.20 bank frontage. The major bay has deeply recessed bronzed casement
windows in 3 storey tier to upper floors framed by channelled wall face.
Entablature with prominent modillion cornice and parapet. Above rises a
dome with 2 tiers of attic windows in the drum between scrolled voluted
buttresses, enriched cresting-cornice and copper dome surmounted by finial
with openwork globe crowned by weathervane of a ship. Tall corniced
flanking chimney stacks.
Listing NGR: TQ2980380387
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