Number 1 And Attached Railings

Number 1 Stamford Street is a commercial building, now offices, dating from around 1870. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, incorporating decorative black and white brickwork. The building has a high slate mansard roof and occupies a corner plot with a canted entrance bay on the angle.

The building has two-window ranges to each elevation and three storeys over a basement. Dormers are set into the mansard roof: two face Stamford Street, one the corner, and one Blackfriars, with an additional straight-headed four-light dormer adjacent to the latter. These dormers have decorative iron cresting above a strongly modelled bracketed eaves cornice. The second-floor windows are round-arched, with 2x2 sash windows set within polychromatic brick arches. There's a continuous arcade of five windows to Stamford Street, a corner window with a projecting balcony, and two groups of three windows to Blackfriars. A patterned brick sill band to the second-floor windows is punctuated by terracotta knobs in square surrounds. The first-floor windows are arranged in groups of two 2-light windows with 2x2 sashes, three to Blackfriars. The window in the canted bay opens onto a balcony supported by the entrance porch.

The ground floor is rusticated, with polished Peterhead granite knobs decorating the cornice. There are three tall rectangular windows to Stamford Street and four to Blackfriars, with a rusticated porch sheltering the main entrance. A subsidiary door to Stamford Street appears to be original, but the main double doors and ground-floor glazing are modern.

The interior was not inspected. The building features fine railings to the Stamford Street basement area and attractive ironwork to the first-floor balcony. It's a handsome building designed to take advantage of its location overlooking Blackfriars Bridge and forms a group with Number 3 Stamford Street.