Description

CITY OF WESTMINSTER STRAND WC2
TQ 3080 NW Nos 430, 434 to 437
72/130 (consec), 440 and 449.
(Including Nos 1 and 3
2.7.69 to 18 consec Adelaide
Street and 5 and 7
William IV Street)
GV II*
Triangular island block of shops and offices 1830-32 as part of the West Strand Improvements planned
by Nash and executed by William Herbert, the centre of the block rebuilt for Coutts
Bank by Frederick Gibberd & Partners in 1970s with new set back entrance replacing
Strand centrepiece,and restored facades to rest of block. Stucco, slate roofs.
Graeco-Roman details with feature of diagonally placed circular corner pavilions,
the famous "pepper pots". 3 storeys and attic storey. The surviving ranges flanking
the removed Strand centrepiece are each 12 windows wide. 1970s ground floor shops
between pilasters, carrying entablature. Upper floors have architraved glazing bar
sashes, those on 1st floor full length and with cornices. Main entablature over
2nd floor and attic cornice crowned by blocking course. The terminal corner feature
at the junction of Strand and William IV Street takes the form of a circular 5-
window pavilion with flanking single window returns similar in detail to Strand
ranges but with the 1st and 2nd floor windows articulated by giant pilasters, the
main entablature enriched with dentil cornice and surmounted on the pavilion by
balustrated parapet encircling the 2 storey pilastered attic finished off with a
shallow dome crowned by acanthus-ornamented drum finial. The terminal feature to
Adelaide Street junction is similar but with a pair of circular pavilions linked by
a single window bay. The William IV Street and Adelaide Street ranges are of the
same design but retain their centrepieces,that to William IV Street 8 windows wide
and the Adelaide Street one (rebuilt) of 3 windows, articulated by paired giant
pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors, dentil cornice to entablature, pilastered attic with
cornice and blocking course. Same circular corner pavilion treatment to junction
of Adelaide and William IV Streets. Continuous 1st floor iron balustrade to
the 3 fronts. Interiors gutted and rebuilt. With Haymarket Theatre and Suffolk Street
and Place this block is the only remaining example of Nash's Regent Street manner.
(No 440, the 1970s main entrance to Coutts Bank, is not of special interest.)
Survey of London; vol XX

Listing NGR: TQ3018880575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550125

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