Description

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER LOWER REGENT STREET,
71/94 SW1 (East side)

22.11.73 DORLAND HOUSE: Nos. 14
to 22 (even) (Including
No. 9 St. Alban's Street)
(formerly listed under
Regent Street)

GV II

Office block with shops. c.1924-28 by J.J. Joass. Portland stone clad;
steel frame, slate roof. Beaux Arts influenced heavy but dignifies
classicism in the rebuilt Regent Street idiom. 6 storeys, including podium
ground floor with mezzanine and 2 tiers of attics in mansard. 8-window
wide front with 3-window wings and 8 window wide return to Carlton Street
The ground floor office entrance and shop windows have been altered but
dividing pilasters and engaged Doric columns to the wings rising through
mezzanine to carry continuous entablature with cast iron balcony with stony
urns on pedestals to centre of 2nd floor. This floor has rusticated ashlar
facing and with 3rd floor has recessed metal casements in architraves, with
cornices over on 3rd floor. Deep entablature with bracketed cornice an
balustraded parapet surmounted by urns. The mansard roof has lead
dressings to the dormers and triumphal ornaments on the corners of the
wings.

Listing NGR: TQ2962380541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080812

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)