Royal Victoria Buildings

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SK3587NE LADY'S BRIDGE 784-1/20/457 (North West side) 04/08/92 Royal Victoria Buildings

GV II

Office building incorporating billiard hall, now disused offices, bank and shop. Dated 1900, with mid and late C20 alterations. By John Henry Bryars. Brown glazed brick with ashlar dressings and slate mansard roof. EXTERIOR: moulded sillbands and string courses. 3 storeys plus attics; 7 window range. Triangular plan with canted corners, each with an external stack with coped triple octagonal flues, 2 of them with datestones in cartouches. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Street front has central bay defined by octagonal pilasters topped with pinnacles. On the upper floors, a sash flanked by narrower side lights, and beyond, 2 sashes. Attic has central crowstep gable with finial and oval window, flanked by box dormers with 3-light windows and segmental pediments. Ground floor has late C20 polished stone cladding. 3 square casements flanked to left by a panelled double door and overlight, and to right by an angled recess containing a shop doorway and 2 windows. Left return, to riverside, of identical design, with unaltered fenestration on all floors. INTERIOR not inspected. This building is complementary to Royal Exchange Buildings (qv) on the opposite side of the road, and is part of the same scheme of development. (Deposited Plan, 1899).

Listing NGR: SK3573587798