No. 367 LORD STREET

No. 367 Lord Street is a bank building, now a shop, dated between 1925 and 1927. It was designed by Palmer & Holden in association with Finchett, Lancaster & Archer of London and has been altered. The building features Portland stone on its main elevations and is designed in the Classical Revival style.

It has a rectangular plan situated on a corner site, with two-and-a-half unequal storeys plus an attic. The facade facing Lord Street is symmetrical with three bays and is topped with a pediment, while the return to Nevill Street has four bays. The tall ground floor is characterized by rusticated masonry and a dentilled cornice. The two upper floors are treated as a single unit, featuring a tetrastyle giant order of fluted Roman Doric columns and a full entablature with triglyphs and a mutuled pediment that contains an oculus.

The ground floor includes a central square-headed doorway with an elaborately enriched pedimented architrave, set within a tall round-headed arch that has rusticated voussoirs. Above the keystone of this arch is a cartouche from which hang swags carved in the style of Grinling Gibbons. Flanking the doorway are windows, which were enlarged in the late 20th century, set in similar elliptical-headed arches, each with elaborate carvings in the tympanum. Above these windows is a small square opening between the keystone and the cornice.

On the first floor, there are tall cross-windows with small balustraded balconies and cornices on consoles, with the central balcony featuring a segmental pediment. The second floor has square two-light windows, all with small panes and moulded architraves, and the second-floor windows have lion-mask keystones in the soffit of the entablature.

The return side matches the main style but includes urns on the cornice between the windows of a flat-topped attic storey, as well as a doorway inserted at the ground floor of the fourth bay. The interior was not inspected. This building forms a group with No. 365 adjoining to the left and with the War Memorial in London Square opposite.