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Latitude: 51.5078 / 51°30'27"N
Longitude: -0.1401 / 0°8'24"W
OS Eastings: 529175
OS Northings: 180400
OS Grid: TQ291804
Mapcode National: GBR DF.QP
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.JC9H
Plus Code: 9C3XGV55+4X
Entry Name: 162-165, PICCADILLY W1 (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 30 May 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1226543
English Heritage Legacy ID: 423862
Also known as: 162-165 Piccadilly
162-165, Piccadilly W1
ID on this website: 101226543
Location: St James's, Westminster, London, W1J
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St James Piccadilly
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY Wl
81/68 (south side)
30-5-72 Nos 162 to 165(consec.)
(including No 39 St.
James's Street)
GV II
Corner block of offices and shops. 1907-09 by Runtz and Ford.
Marble clad, slate roof. Rich and busy Free Baroque. 4 main
storeys with mezzanine to ground floor, attic storey and 2 roof
storeys. Symmetrical Piccadilly front with 5 bay centre flanked
by slightly advanced pavilions, splayed comer rising as bowed
oriel and 3 bays to St. James's. Splayed corner entrance with
pedestalled Ionic columns and pediment cut into by mezzanine. Ground
floor of centre 5 bays obscured by mid C20 shop windows and fascias,
the pavilions channelled with rusticated arches to mezzanine, cornice
over central bays articulated by 2 storey engaged giant Ionic columns,
enriched window architraves, segmental pedimented on 1st floor;
pavilions have channelled giant pilasters and columned tripartite
windows with cartouches and putti crowning. 3rd floor above deep
entablature has enriched oculi framed by lion head capped inverted
consoles, the Pavilions with cartouches. Bold crowning cornice.
Attics to pavilions with rusticated arches and crowning bronze
ornaments. The bowed corner oriel has tripartite windows and
is surmounted above cornice by bronze sculpture group on large
stone base. Similar 3 bay return to St. James's with pilastered
semicircular arched doorway, with open pediment on scrolled
brackets, in end bay.
Survey of London; vol XXIX
Listing NGR: TQ2917280391
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