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125, Pall Mall SW1

A Grade II Listed Building in St James's, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5075 / 51°30'27"N

Longitude: -0.131 / 0°7'51"W

OS Eastings: 529803

OS Northings: 180387

OS Grid: TQ298803

Mapcode National: GBR GF.RS

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PC2P

Plus Code: 9C3XGV59+2H

Entry Name: 125, Pall Mall SW1

Listing Date: 20 June 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1225925

English Heritage Legacy ID: 422830

ID on this website: 101225925

Location: Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y

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 Martin-in-the-Fields

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: Embassy

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Description


TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1
82/35 (south side)
20.6.73 No. 125
G.V. II
Office block. 1912-13 by H.R. Houchin and Frank Smee: Portland stone,
copper dome. Eclectic Baroque for narrow but very prominent frontage
closing Haymarket vista. 5 storeys as: podium ground floor with mezzanine
and 3 main storeys and 2 tier attics under dome. 2 windows wide with one
major bay on Pall Mall alignment and one narrow bay on splay aligned with
Cockspur Street. Rusticated framework to ground and mezzanine with altered
mid C.20 bank frontage. The major bay has deeply recessed bronzed casement
windows in 3 storey tier to upper floors framed by channelled wall face.
Entablature with prominent modillion cornice and parapet. Above rises a
dome with 2 tiers of attic windows in the drum between scrolled voluted
buttresses, enriched cresting-cornice and copper dome surmounted by finial
with openwork globe crowned by weathervane of a ship. Tall corniced
flanking chimney stacks.


Listing NGR: TQ2980380387

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