India House (Including Attached Wrought Iron Gateway Linked To Lancaster House)

This is a large packing warehouse, later converted into apartments between 1988 and 1989. It was built between 1905 and 1912, with the design attributed to Harry S. Fairhurst, and is dated 1906. The building is steel-framed and faced with buff terracotta and red brick, with dressings of buff terracotta. It has a rectangular plan and is built in the Edwardian Baroque style.

The building is six storeys high with a basement and attic, featuring a symmetrical facade with 3, 4, 6, 4, and 3 windows on the first floor. The ground and first floors are channelled buff terracotta and feature a mutuled cornice supported by brackets, with a cartouche lettered "INDIA HOUSE" at each corner. Giant arcades, brick pilasters, a heavily enriched terracotta frieze incorporating swags, volutes, and cartouches, and a modillioned cornice run along the upper floors. The attic is treated as a parapet.

The lower bays are distinguished by elaborate entrances at ground floor level. These have surrounds of grey ashlar, including large semi-circular open pediments with mutules and recessed doorways flanked by Ionic semi-columns, with panelled side bays under mutuled cornices, lettered “73” and “75” respectively. Canted bay windows of terracotta rise from the second to the fifth floor, displaying various forms of enrichment, including corbelled plaques lettered "1906," and flanked by broad terracotta pilasters. Other bays feature segmental-headed windows on the first floor, round-headed on the fifth floor, and square-headed elsewhere. The attic windows are recessed and have three lights. Return walls are similar in design.

Attached to the left end, and linked to Lancaster House (No. 71), is a large wrought-iron gateway. This comprises double gates with ramped tops, a semicircular four-strand overthrow forming a complete circle, and a slender lamp in Art Nouveau style suspended from the apex. The gateway forms a group with Nos. 67 to 71, Lancaster House, the Refuge Assurance building on Oxford Road, and Nos. 58 to 60, Bridgewater House. The interior has not been inspected.