Description

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY Wl
81/68 (south side)
30-5-72 Nos 162 to 165(consec.)
(including No 39 St.
James's Street)
GV II
Corner block of offices and shops. 1907-09 by Runtz and Ford.
Marble clad, slate roof. Rich and busy Free Baroque. 4 main
storeys with mezzanine to ground floor, attic storey and 2 roof
storeys. Symmetrical Piccadilly front with 5 bay centre flanked
by slightly advanced pavilions, splayed comer rising as bowed
oriel and 3 bays to St. James's. Splayed corner entrance with
pedestalled Ionic columns and pediment cut into by mezzanine. Ground
floor of centre 5 bays obscured by mid C20 shop windows and fascias,
the pavilions channelled with rusticated arches to mezzanine, cornice
over central bays articulated by 2 storey engaged giant Ionic columns,
enriched window architraves, segmental pedimented on 1st floor;
pavilions have channelled giant pilasters and columned tripartite
windows with cartouches and putti crowning. 3rd floor above deep
entablature has enriched oculi framed by lion head capped inverted
consoles, the Pavilions with cartouches. Bold crowning cornice.
Attics to pavilions with rusticated arches and crowning bronze
ornaments. The bowed corner oriel has tripartite windows and
is surmounted above cornice by bronze sculpture group on large
stone base. Similar 3 bay return to St. James's with pilastered
semicircular arched doorway, with open pediment on scrolled
brackets, in end bay.
Survey of London; vol XXIX

Listing NGR: TQ2917280391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081205

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)