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TQ 2980 SW
81/105

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ST. JAMES'S STREET SW1 (East side)
Nos 1 and 2 (including No 64 Pall Mall)

24.2.58

GV
II*

Corner block of offices. 1882 by R. Norman Shaw for the Alliance Insurance Company. Red brick with plenty of stone dressings in richly striated chromatism and moulded brick decorative panels. Tiled roofs. "Queen Anne" closely based on Flemish Renaissance and French models. Four tall storeys, basement, two storeyed attics in gables and five storey corner turret. Six windows wide to St. James's Street, the three to left in slightly advanced gabled break. Stone banded ground floor has two large semicircular shop windows flanking enriched doorway with entablature - the window arches deep and moulded with alternating stone and cut brick voussoirs. Upper floors have mullion-transom windows, tall on first floor with two transoms, enriched heads and capitals carved on dividing piers. Figured brick and stone friezes and panels. Sill bands and cornices. The gable shaped with scrolled kneelers and pediment capping. The corner turret corbelled out from ground floor has mannerist pediments to windows and finialed roof. Return to Pall Mall has two similar large shop windows and similar fenestration and details to five bays above crowned by similar gable. First floor cast iron balconies on stone corbelling to both fronts. Lofty stone dressed stacks. Influential commercial design.

R. Norman Shaw: Andrew Saint Survey of London; vol XVIX

Listing NGR: TQ2933080144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550329

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)