Description

TQ 2980 NW & NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1
70/86 ; 71/2 (West side)
30.5.72 Nos. 49 to 63 odd.
The Quadrant
(including Nos. 9 to
18 consec. Piccadilly)
G.V. II
Quadrant of offices and shops and stores. Part of the south western half
of Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant,
designed from c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the
quadrant elevation of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and
scale and completed 1920-23. Stone-faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing
ground floor and mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard.
The podium has bold pulvinated rustication to its articulated piers, ashlar
upper floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice,
continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting;
prominent banded and corniced stone stacks. The penetration of Air Street
is marked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with open giant 3
storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The Quadrant
composition is terminated by slightly advanced pavilions with concave
pyramidal cupola roofs. The eastern end of the Quadrant includes the
former Swan and Edgar's store (Nos. 9 to 18 Piccadilly) in which Blomfield
develops the pavilion design towards Piccadilly Circus with 3 bays and a 9
bay return to Piccadilly. To the Circus, a pulvinated and channelled
podium with an arcade embracing ground floor and mezzanine, above which are
3 storeys read as 1 ½ with tall, through storey, segment headed and hooded
windows, ashlar faced with giant rusticated pilaster strips. Rich
modillion cornice and attic storey with swags and festoons; close set
dormers. The first return bay to Piccadilly is similarly treated. Beyond,
the 8 bay composition differs in the treatment of podium and attic; the end
bays are slightly advanced as pavilions with elevations similar to those
facing the Circus and the Quadrant terminal pavilions, crowned with the
same concave cupola roofs.

Listing NGR: TQ2948280626

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081408

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)