Westminster Buildings Westminster Mansions With Attached Verandah

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SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/60 (East side) Nos.102-108 AND 106A (Even) Westminster Mansions with attached verandah

GV II

Includes: Nos.2, 2A AND 4 Westminster Buildings EASTBANK STREET. Block of shops with chambers over and attached verandah. 1900 by G Bolshaw; altered. Red brick with some buff terracotta dressings, wrought-iron balconies and slated mansard roof (raised). Free Queen Anne style. Rectangular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus 2 attic storeys (the upper probably added), 2:1:2:1 windows including a corner turret to the left, the single-window second and third bays featured with pilasters which have terracotta panels to the top storey with Renaissance-style enrichment, 2-storey canted oriels, and steeply-pitched Dutch gables with terracotta coping; balconies to first and second floors of the intermediate bays, and a prominent modillioned cornice (painted white). The ground floor has a wide entrance to the chamber staircase in the third bay, and shop-fronts with large plate-glass windows in the other bays. On the main upper floors the second and fourth bays have 5-sided painted wooden oriels which have square upper lights with leaded glazing, and the other bays have tall segmental-headed French windows with similar upper lights, and sturdy balconies with wrought-iron railings bridging the oriels and turret. To the left is an octagonal corner turret with bands on 5 levels, square-headed windows and a swept slated roof with wrought-iron cresting. The mansard roof has pedimented dormers with small-paned sashes, and its set-back upper stage has canted bay windows behind the gables of the second and fourth bays, and sashes with glazing bars in the other bays. Large lateral chimney rising from third bay, another to the right. Five-bay left return side (to Eastbank Street) in similar style, the second and fourth bays gabled with first-floor oriels, a 2-storey oriel at the left end, and 3 tall lateral chimneys. Very prominent verandah (carried round), with large and elaborate open-work brackets to the columns, a glazed pediment in front of the chamber entrance lettered: WESTMINSTER MANSIONS, and single-pitched glazed roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with Cannon Cinema (qv) adjoining to the right.

Listing NGR: SD3353417164