Description

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER 0XFORD STREET W1
(north side)
57/19 Nos. 156 to 162
21.8.75 (even)
- II*
Office corner block. 1906-08 by Belcher and Joass. Early example of steel
framed structure, faced with Pentelikon marble, slate roof. Expressive ree
Mannerist use of classical detail elegantly accommodating maximal glazing
advantages of steel frame. 5 storeys (including ground floor and mezzanine
podium), attic storey and stone dormered mansard. 4 bays wide to each front
and splayed corner. Tall Doric columns articulate ground floor and mezzanine
and directly support square panelled pillars that, in turn, carry coupled
columns on which rest wide elliptical arches; the whole framing tripartite
glazing of upper floors with "applied" central architraved openings with
Mannerist cornices and broken pediments set against marble faced aprons,
finished off with 3rd floor lunettes. Projecting cornice below attic storey
finished off with blocking course with stone dormer rising from the centre
of each bay. To be compared with same architects'former Royal Insurance offices
on comer of Piccadilly and St James's and Holden's 429 Strand.
Edwardian Architecture and its Origins; Alistair Service.
Architectural Design; Vol. 48, Nos 5-6, 1978.

Listing NGR: TQ2927881322

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550774

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback