26, King Street Wc2

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING STREET, WC2 72/39 15.1.73 No. 26 G.V. II Office block. 1860 rebuild by Arthur Allom with Mathew Digby Wyatt as consultant. Stucco, slate roof. Eclectic Italianate palazzo design. 4 storeys and basement. Wedge shape site, 9 windows wide aligned on Garrick Street, bowed corner and 3 window return to Rose Street and bowed corner with 1 window wide front to King Street. Channelled pier ground floor with central doorway and windows recessed in splayed reveals with segmental, mask keystoned arches, the doorway and flanking windows slightly advanced with the piers vermiculated and the ground floor entablature broken forward in turn on consoles with the dentil cornice raised in pediment over doorway. 1st floor sashes recessed in enriched concave reveals with triple keystones to flat arches. 2nd floor sashes in architrave surrounds with panelled keystones. 3rd floor has small semicircular arched windows separated by large moulded panels with concave corners. Plinth, rusticated block quoins, sill bands, band course, moulded frieze and prominent enriched crowning cornice. The smaller scaled single bay to King Street, beyond quoining, has rusticated round arched and keystoned doorway with pediment, archivolted and keyed 1st floor window, plain architraved and keyed 2nd floor sash and inscribed round arched 3rd floor window with key extending into frieze. Cast iron 1st floor window guards. Cast iron area railings finialed and with anthemion standards. Interior has hexagonal vestibule, out of which rises the main staircase, the domed ceiling opened at the crown by a circular 1st floor landing gallery. Survey of London; Vol.XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3018280841