26, WIGMORE STREET W1 (See details for further address information)

No 26 Wigmore Street is a shop and flats building dated 1891, designed by F L Pearson. Originally constructed from stone and terracotta, it is now painted, with tiled roofs. The building is an asymmetrical corner block in a free Jacobethan style, featuring a basement, four main storeys, and a tiled gabled attic storey.

The ground floor shop front of No 26 has basket handle arched windows, an entablature, and a splayed corner entrance with a pediment. A prominent feature is the large corbelled bowed oriel tower at the corner, which has five mullioned sashed lights on each of its three floors, topped with a pierced parapet. There is a shallow segmental bay window on the first and second floors facing Wigmore Street, with mullioned sashed lights and decorative strings and cornices above the corner oriel tower. The building is accented with quoin pilasters.

On the third floor, there are four windows, and a three-light casement is set in the finialed gable, flanked by obelisks. Facing Wimpole Street, the building has two rectangular four-storey bays with finialed gables, featuring similar pilastered and mullioned lights. Between these bays is a two-storey canted porch for No 87, which has a pilastered doorway and a crenellated parapet. Above the porch, on the second and third floors, are four-light mullioned windows with pediments. The pierced parapet of the corner oriel tower extends across the front at eaves level between the gabled bays. A bold arcaded external chimney stack is located to the right of the oriel.

Some of the windows have leaded lights. The entrance to No 86, which is now blocked, features tapering side pilasters and a fanlight divided by short pilasters. This building occupies a prominent corner site and holds significant group value with its surroundings.