30 Coptic Street and 35 Little Russell Street

Former dairy erected in 1888 by R P Wellcock, comprising two principal buildings at 30 Coptic Street and 35 Little Russell Street surrounding a small service yard at their corner. The buildings are constructed in polychromatic brick with stone dressings.

30 Coptic Street occupies the corner plot with façades to both streets. A handsome corner building faced in yellow stock brick with banded red brick and stone dressings and carved and rubbed red brick cartouches. The ground floor features large semi-circular arched windows to each frontage with a corner entrance to the dairy, all retaining their original joinery. The Coptic Street elevation is enriched with commemorative panels. On the Little Russell Street frontage is a recessed service yard entrance set behind elaborate iron gates enriched with the company's monogram. Above the first floor level runs a continuous Portland stone frieze inscribed "Dairy Supply Company Limited" in elaborate sinuous script. The rear façades facing into the service yard are of stock brick. Above the service yard entrance, the façade is blind; to the west, the wall is fenestrated and unadorned except for a three storey oriel. The flues are concealed by a projecting bay resting on a dentilled moulding.

The ground floor of 30 Coptic Street comprises a single room forming a U-shape around the stairs to the upper floors. This room has been subdivided north of the stairs to form a separate kitchen and toilets for a restaurant. The upper floors have been subdivided into four flats per floor, arranged two on either side of the stairwell. The ground floor retains its original tiled walls in white tiles with simple green chevron banding at frieze level and art nouveau details, with an original square panelled ceiling above and black and white chequerwork marble floor. A stained glass window depicting a milkmaid, cottage and windmill is fixed over a window. The stairwell is tiled in cream and light brown glazed tiles, separated by a band of dark brown and green tiles laid in Flemish bond, extending to the second floor. Original features such as joinery and glazing survive in the upper storeys, though the full extent of survival throughout the building is not entirely clear.

No 35 Little Russell Street occupies the east side of the service yard and presents as a three-bay wide frontage faced in yellow stock brick with segmental red brick arches and polychromatic tiled aprons beneath the windows. The central bay has warehouse loopholes and an original iron hoist. A dentilled stone cornice terminates the building at parapet level. At ground floor fascia level is a continuous stone frieze inscribed "Dairy Supply Company Limited" carried on four black granite pilasters with foliated capitals. The courtyard elevations are unadorned brick with uneven fenestration, reducing in height from the four storey Little Russell Street frontage. The rear of the service yard reduces in height further from two storeys to one and contains elements of another external hoist. Ancillary buildings to the rear form the north side of the service yard, with further structures to the north east.

The ground floor of 35 Little Russell Street comprises one large room, with a smaller room formed by a modern stud partition in the northwest corner. To the rear, an entrance from the service yard opens into a hallway, with a small kitchen, the counting house and the stairs opening from it. The hallway opens into a large two storey exhibition space, also accessible from the front of the building. North of the kitchen and counting house, a two storey range extends to the west, with a further single storey range beyond, completing the north wall of the service yard. A separate stairwell to the upper floors rises to the west.

The ground floor retains original tiled walls, although most tiles have now been painted over or concealed behind wooden display surfaces. A number of original doors survive complete with original door furniture, notably the door to the counting house with an etched glass panel identifying the room, and a door with a stained glass panel depicting two yachts in similar style to the panel in number 30. The rear exhibition space has a square panelled ceiling similar to that in number 30. The upper storeys of number 35 comprise single room, open plan offices with modern finishes and modern windows to the Little Russell Street elevation, although Victorian sashes survive to the rear. The timber roof structure is exposed on the attic floor and comprises two timber Howe trusses. The upper floor of the rear exhibition space contains a number of original features, including tiling and a large built in safe. The exhibition space has iron Pratt trusses supporting a hipped roof with a large central glass lantern.

The basements of both buildings are brick walled, with upper floors supported on beams resting on cast iron columns. The basement ceilings are formed from white tiles held in place with wrought iron straps.