Description

In the entry for:
TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET W1
70/87 (west side)
Nos 115 to 131 (odd)
Vigo House (including Nos
22.11.73 2 to 4 consec Vigo Street)
Empire House, Westmorland
House and front of New
Gallery
GV II
The address and description shall be amended as follows:
REGENT STREET W1
(west side)
Nos 115 to 131 (odd)
Vigo House (including Nos
2 to 4 consec Vigo Street)
Empire House, Westmorland
House and New Gallery
Block of offices, shops and former cinema. 1920-25 by Sir J J Burnet, and
Thomas Tait; cinema c1925 by C F Nicholas and J E Dixon-Spain for
Provincial Cinematograph Theatres. The least Beaux Arts-influenced of the
1920s Regent Street facades, inventive classicism with slightly Deco
details. Portland stone facings, slate roof. 5 storeys and attic. 14 bays
with 3-bay curved corners surmounted by domes. Ground floor altered with
mid and later C20 shop fronts but retaining central entrance with parabolic
arched doorway to the New Gallery. Coupled metal casement windows with fine
Deco bronze balconettes to 1st floor. Upper floors have recessed window
bays with metal casements. The curved corners of the block have giant
Tuscan engaged columns rising through 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, carrying
main entablature which runs across block. Above corners are short drums
with sculptured figures by Reid Dick, surmounted by squat, rather
Byzantine, copper domes. Deep blocking course across block with stepped
chunky blocks. The green slate roof has copper gutters with bronze lion
masks. The New Gallery includes an unusual and virtually complete survival
of a 1920s silent cinema interior, including the oldest surviving Wurlitzer
organ in Britain. Known as the New Gallery Cinema, it replaced and
incorporated parts of a smaller 1913 cinema. Panelled auditorium with domed
and coffered ceiling, balcony and rectangular grilles flanking the
proscenium arch.

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TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl
70/87 (West side)
Nos 115 to 131 (odd)
Vigo House (including Nos
22.11.73 2 to 4 consec Vigo Street)
Empire House, Westmor-
land House and front of
New Gallery.
GV II
Block of offices and shops. 1920-25 by Sir J. J. Burnet, and Thomas
Tait. The least Beaux Arts influenced of the 1920s' Regent Street
facades, inventive classicism with slightly Deco details. Portland
stone facings, slate roof. 5 storeys and attic. 14 bays with 3 bay
curved corners surmounted by domes. Ground floor altered with mid
and later C20 shop fronts but retaining central entrance with
parabolic arched doorway to the New Gallery. Coupled metal casement
windows with fine Deco bronze balconettes to 1st floor. Upper
floors have recessed window bays with metal casements. The curved
corners of the block have giant Tuscan engaged columns rising through
2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, carrying main entablature which runs across
block. Above corners are short drums with sculptured figures by
Reid Dick, surmounted by squat, rather Byzantine, copper domes.
Deep blocking course across block with stepped chunky blocks. The
green slate roof has copper gutters with bronze lion masks.

Listing NGR: TQ2924880724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081409

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record