Description

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET, W1
70/119 (West side)
30.5.72 Nos. 83 to 89 (odd),
89A and 91 to 113
(odd) The Quadrant
G.V. II
Quadrant of offices and shops. Part of the south western half of
Sir Reginald Blomfield's grandiose rebuilding of Nash's Quadrant, designed
c.1910 taking Norman Shaw's neo-Baroque set piece of the Quadrant elevation
of his Piccadilly Hotel (Piccadilly q.v.) as key and seale, completed
1920-23. Stone faced, slate roofs. Podium embracing ground floor and
mezzanine, 3 storeys above and dormered steep mansard. The podium has
boldly pulvinated rustication to its articulating piers, ashlar upper
floors with windows in flat surrounds; rich modillion eaves cornice,
continuous range of dormers in roof which has bronze ridge cresting;
prominent banded and corniced chimney stone stacks. The penetration of
Swallow Street is masked by a rusticated semicircular arched bridge with
open, giant, 3 storey Doric columned loggia over, a la Somerset House. The
Quadrant composition is terminated by a slightly advanced pavilion with
concave pyramidal cupola roof, balancing similar features to eastern end,
viz Nos. 49 to 63 odd, qv.

Listing NGR: TQ2932680644

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66477493

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)