Description

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER OXFORD STREET W1
(north side)
58/2 Nos 34 and 36
II
Commercial premises. 1912 by Metcalfe and Grieg. Portland stone faced,
slate roof. Arts and Crafts office cum shop elevation with strong vertical
emphasis in the manner of Treadwell and Martin. 6 storeys rising to a
shaped gable attic. Broad single bay front. Ground floor and 1st floor/
mezzanine have mid C20 altered shop front and upper display window, framed
by a full width label moulded semi-elliptical arch, the display window
mullioned and transomed. A dentilled cornice with foliated and masked
corbels separates the upper floors from the arch and from it to the parapet
rise shafts dividing the front into 3 parts with central through-storey
canted oriel with stone mullioned and transomed lights, carved on raised
corbels that break into the flat arch of 3-light 2nd floor window; small 2-
light windows flanking oriel. The parapet, with projecting capping and
moulding crowning the shafts, sweeps up to the shafted gable containing a
3-light lunette and finished off with open segmental pediment.

Listing NGR: TQ2970281387

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319048

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