Description

TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY W1
80/109 (north side)
30-5-72 Nos 90 to 93 consec.
GV II
Corner block of shops and chambers. Dated 1883. Red brick with
stucco ornament and dressings, slate roofs. Eclectic High
Victorian design. 4 main storeys with gabled attic floor.
Symmetrical 4 windows front. Ground floor shop fronts with
mezzanines are enclosed by banded semicircular arches, flanked by
granite Doric columns supporting entablature. Continuous vertical
stucco wind bays from 1st to 3rd floors, the outer bays as canted
to 1st and 2nd floors, flanked by pilasters on brick fields,
the 3rd floor having elaborated debased Composite capitals supporting
stucco enriched entablature; moulded enrichments to entablatures of
1st and 2nd floor windows and with pediments to central 2 bays on
1st floor. Stucco trimmed and decorated gables to attic, those over
end bays crowned by segmental broken pediments, linked by balustrading.
Tall chimney stacks. Left flank wall to forecourt of No 94 q.v.
ashlar faced with cornices etc. returned from front. Half Moon Street
return Similar to Piccadilly front but with double entrance under
granite columned porch.

Listing NGR: TQ2885080190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081234

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair