Description

TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl
70/90; 71/3 (East side)
30-5-72 No 50 (The County Fire
Office)
GV II
Grand office block. Part of Sir Reginald Blomfield's 1910-1923
grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Regent Street Quadrant qv: By
Ernest Newton, completed 1924. Stone faced, with slate roof.
Classical details, design complementary and a variant on Blomfield's.
Circus facade to former Swan & Edgar's store (Nos 9 to 18 Piccadilly).
Tall podium carrying 3 storeys and an attic storey. 3 wide
bays. Pulvinated and channelled podium with open semicircular
arched arcade over pavement. 3 storeys above,ashlar faced with
giant rusticated pilaster strips, the windows vertically linked
through storeys and read as tall openings - segmented headed
and hooded. Rich modillion cornice. The attic storey is
elaborately swagged and festooned with oculi and has a stepped
blocking course above its cornice rising in the centre to a
rectangular block surmounted by a sculptural group of Britannia
and lion. Behind rises a corniced drum with a copper dome and
gilded finial. The drum is flanked by monumental stone stacks.
The main facade to Piccadilly Circus closes the vista up Lower
Regent Street. A one bay return to right forms the link with
the plainer facade in Glasshouse Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2951080680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q16662711

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)