Description

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER LOWER REGENT STREET, SW1
71/83 (west side)

Nos 27 to 37 (odd)
30.5.72 (including No 217 Piccadilly
with Nos 14 and 15 Jermyn
Street) (formerly listed under
Regent Street)

GV II

Offices and shops. c.1910-20 by (Sir) Reginald Blomfield and part of his
grand rebuilding of Regent Street Quadrant and the reorganisation of
Piccadilly Circus. Portland ashlar rusticated up to 2nd floor, on steel
frame, slate roof. Beaux Arts inspired classicism in grand manner, similar
to former Swan and Edgar block and the County Fire Office and balancing the
near identical Nos. 24 to 36 (even) opposite, defining the southern
enclosure framing the debouchment of Lower Regent Street into the Circus.
6 storeys with podium ground floor and mezzanine and attic storey with
dormered mansard. 8 windows wide (1:6:1) plus emphasised end pavilions,
returned to north with 2-window wing to Circus; 5-window wing to Jermyn
Street. Mid to later C.20 entrances and shops between rusticated pilasters
rising, through rusticated mezzanine and low 2nd floor, to modified
cornice; the ground floor and mezzanine in the pavilions contained in large
semicircular arches with helmeted heads mounted on keys flanked by swags.
Recessed sash windows in plain surrounds but principal windows of the
pavilions rise through 3rd and 4th floors with segmental arched architraves
and open pediments on consoles and have ornate cast iron balconettes. The
pavilions are emphasised by channelled quoins and heavy attics with open
segmental pediments. Bracketed main cornice with balustraded parapet over
main range. Mansard has lead-dressed oval dormers flanked by scrolls and
lead capped ridges. Jermyn Street return has small vermiculated tooling to
podium and from the 2nd floor up the windows are vertically linked in
shallow panels; deep enriched crowning cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ2952480602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083616

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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