Railway Company Offices Night Club And Shops

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SE2933SE CITY SQUARE 714-1/77/103 (South side) Railway Company offices, night club and shops

GV II

Offices, concourse entrance and cinema, now British Rail general offices and night club. c1935. By W Curtis Green and WH Hamlyn. For the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. In Stripped Classical style. Steel-framed with Portland stone ashlar facade, brown brick to rear and sides. 7 storeys; plain recessed cinema facade left, 10 paired windows to City Square, 8 paired windows and a 4-window projecting block to Aire Street. A continuation of the City Square frontage of the Queen's Hotel (qv). Entrance to station concourse rises through 2 storeys on City Square frontage: drum columns in antis and shallow moulding to flat arch; flanking plain shop windows, late C20 fittings; stone plaque with coat of arms to centre, 5th storey. Cinema entrance to left has glass double doors and an obelisk above plain lintel. Railway Company office entrance to Aire Street: panelled double doors in keyed architrave surmounted by carved crest with roses and thistles. Metal casements. INTERIOR: concourse entrance has pilasters with lamp motifs and inner lobby; cinema, now night club, interior not seen. Part of the important LMS group of hotel, offices (qqv) and concourse. HISTORY: see Queen's Hotel (qv)

Listing NGR: SE2983433385