63, St Pauls Square

63 St Pauls Square is a late 19th-century building that originally served as a bank and has undergone some alterations in the late 20th century. It features smooth red brick with painted dressings and a slated roof, positioned on a corner site with street elevations facing St Pauls Square and Ludgate Hill.

The building rises three storeys from a shallow plinth, with the main entrance located at the splayed corner. The doorway has a quoined surround and is framed by small fluted columns with scrolled capitals, topped by a basket-arched head featuring a stressed keystone. The entrance has a late 20th-century six-panel door. Above the entrance, there is a richly embellished corbelled base supporting a corner oriel, which features a faceted turret with two tiers of three narrow lights, the lower lights having arched heads.

On the Ludgate Hill side, there are four semi-circular arch-headed windows with banded brick heads that include moulded keyblocks and small pediments, along with painted impost and cill bands. To the left, there is a secondary entrance with a stilted semi-circular overlight above a late 20th-century door. A wide storey band runs above, and the first-floor windows are arranged in a pattern of 1:1:2:1, deeply recessed within their surrounds and featuring semi-circular headed sash frames. The upper floor has coupled and tripled flat-headed sashes within openings linked by plain head and cill bands. The moulded eaves band is decorated with egg-and-dart and dentil motifs.

The elevation facing St Pauls Square consists of a single bay with details that match those of the Ludgate Hill frontage. The interior has been remodelled in the late 20th century but retains some late 19th-century plasterwork within a modified layout.

This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 31-33 Ludgate Hill, No. 1 St Pauls Square, and St Pauls Church. It is a prominent and well-detailed former bank, strategically located near manufactories and offices in an important manufacturing district, and it contributes to the formally-planned St Pauls Square, which is the setting for St Pauls Church.