Description

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL SW1
81/51 (North side)
No 54
- II
Office building. 1890-91 by Karslake and Mortimer. Ashlar faced,
slate roof. 4 storeys and gabled attic. 3 windows wide. Ground
floor has a shallow portico of 2 unequal bays containing arched shop
front and entrance door; rusticated pedestalled Ionic columns and
entablature with pulvinated frieze surmounted by a colonetted
balustrade enclosing shallow balcony to the 1st floor windows. The
upper floors are flanked by channelled pilaster strips. The 1st
floor windows are contained in Gibbs surrounds with prominent
keystones; eared architraves to 2nd floor sashes and moulded
architraves to 2nd floor. Above 3rd floor a frieze with relief
carving, bracketed cornice and then a steep pedimented gable
containing ornately composed Venetian attic window. Blind attic
behind gable. Stone balconies, with iron balustrades on massive
brackets across 2nd and 3rd floors; balcony to attic window formed by
bowed projection of cornice carried on central stone bracket.
Survey of London; vol XXIX

Listing NGR: TQ2937480189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084475

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