Description

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER RIDING HOUSE STREET, W1 46/1 Nos. 59 and 61 5.2.70 GV II* Corner commercial premises, offices and flats. 1903 by H. Fuller Clark for Boulting and Sons. Purple brick, hard red brick, some glazed tilework and Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Highly original Free Style with restrained use of Tudor derived details. 5 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide, corbelled corner oriel and 2-window returns. Main office entrance to right of No. 59 in broad panelled stone surround, the doorhead raised in "keystone" panel; central low entrance to No. 61 with camber arched deep doorhead contained by reveals carved up to frame by light. Fenestration principally through-storey shallow rectangular bay windows with flush stone frames and plain square section stone mullions, but the ground floor windows of more changeful design with large square section mullion and transom stone framed display windows to ground floor of No. 59 rising directly from pavement, those flanking corner in blind brick bays which at 3rd floor level have large corbelled mosaic panels emblazoned with firm's name in elongated Edwardian gold lettering. Small oriel over entrance to No. 61 with sashes lighting staircase above. Shaped sections of parapet between through-storey bay windows which are finished off with shaped stone roofs or segmental cornice gables; odd square turret features flanking crown of corner oriel and blind flank bays of No. 61 where the centre bay is carried up through parapet and finished off square with cornice and shaped parapet. The whole chunky and variegated roofscape crowned by big square brick chimney stacks. See also Tower House and Belmont House, Candover Street and No. 40 Foley Street. Arts and Crafts Architecture; Peter Davey.

Listing NGR: TQ2919081683

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