Description

TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WATERLOO PLACE, SW1 82/27 30.5.72 Nos 11, 12, 14, 16 and 17 (including Nos 9 to 12 (consec) Pall Mall and No 29 Charles II Street) G.V. II Large symmetrical block of offices and banks. 1901 - mid 20s, probably by Arthur E. Thompson, but No 16 for example completed by Durward Brown, 1925, as part of the unified design. Portland stone, slate roofs. Palatial scaled pavilion composition in an Edwardian Baroque interpretation of a Palladian style, following in plan Nash's scheme for the north western half of Waterloo Place on his Via Triumphalis, which this block replaces and balancing the similar block of Nos 7 to 9 q. v. opposite. 3 main storeys, attic storeys and mansards, with basements. Nos 11 and 12 form a terminal pavilion at the approach to Regent Street rising above the level of the rest of the composition, the detailing not continuous with the rest but similar. The main west elevation is 9 bays wide arranged 2:5:2 with the central 5 bays advanced. Channelled rustication to ground floor podium with the outermost bays of the advanced centre containing elaborate porches each with an advanced architrave flanked by Doric piers with draped ram's heads supporting a stepped entablature. Above is an odil-de-boeuf decorated with an arched cornice, a garland, reversed volutes and clusters of fruit. Recessed, semicircular arched windows with dropped keystones in ground floor podium above which the advanced bays have a giant Corinthian order framing the 1st floor Ionic aediculed windows (with blind balustraded aprons and pulvinated friezes) and the 2nd floor windows beneath the main entablature; the attic storey above is articulated by piers with lion-heads, pendants and swags and is crowned by a pediment, the tympanum with a cartouche framed in palm branches. The wings are similar but with giant order implied. Nos 14, 16 and 17 and the Waterloo Place elevation of No 9 Pall Mall are set back with the widening of Waterloo Place proper, 13 bays wide, arranged 4:5:4, with the centre advanced. Central porch with Ionic columns, dosserets and open pediment with elaborate trophy and 2 further porches in outer bays of 5 bay centre break with coupled Ionic columns with blocked shafts and entablature cut back on centre-to accommodate stepped keystone, crowned by a broken pediment framing a lunette. Similar fenestration to Nos 11-12 with giant engaged Corinthian order to 1st and 2nd floors and, in addition, on the advanced centre bays, a giant Composite order articulating a 2-storey attic. Balustraded parapets. Chimney stacks with sunken panels and cornice capping. Stone balustraded areas. Nos 9 to 12 Pall Mall (the first phase of the rebuilding), 8 bay elevation arranged 3:3:2, have the same features with 2-storey Composite attic order over the centre break; No 11 has similar porch to the ones in outer bays of centre break to Waterloo Place and secondary entrance in place of window in 3rd bay from west. The ground floor keystones on the front have grotesques. The upper tier of windows in 2 storey attice treated as enriched oeil-de-boeuf. Charles II Street front designed in a lower key, the orders expressed as pilasters and then only in the symmetrical entrance bays; No 29 balances No 28 q. v. framing entrance to Waterloo Place.

Listing NGR: TQ2862080346

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