Royal Pharmaceutical Society And Attached Railings

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is a terraced house that dates from the late 17th century. It was converted into two houses and remodeled by John Nash around 1777-1778, then rejoined in 1860 with a third floor added. The building is finished in stucco with a rusticated ground floor.

It stands four storeys high with a basement and features seven windows on the main facade, along with an eight-window return to Great Russell Street. The front is symmetrical, with a later (1860) distyle Doric porch that includes a triglyph frieze and a mutule cornice. The entrance has a panelled door with a fanlight above it. The ground floor has round-arched openings with keystones and impost bands, and the windows are two-pane sashes set in plain shallow recesses. A plain band runs along the first floor level.

From the first to the third floor, Corinthian pilasters support an entablature, which has the frieze inscribed "The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain." The first-floor windows feature consoles with alternating segmental and triangular pediments, while the third floor has recessed rectangular windows. The fourth floor is adorned with pilasters that support a cornice and blocking course, and the windows here are rectangular recessed sashes. The return elevation has a similar treatment but lacks pilasters and includes an arched entrance with double doors in the sixth bay. The first-floor band is inscribed "Incorporated AD 1843," and the first-floor windows have cornices while the second-floor windows are architraved.

Inside, there is a stone staircase with wrought-iron scroll balusters, and the principal rooms boast plaster ceilings dating from around 1777-1778. The property also features attached cast-iron railings with urn finials surrounding the areas.