26, King Street WC2

No. 26 King Street is an office block rebuilt in 1860 by Arthur Allom, with Mathew Digby Wyatt as a consultant. The building features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, showcasing an eclectic Italianate palazzo design. It stands four storeys high with a basement and is situated on a wedge-shaped site, with nine windows aligned on Garrick Street, a bowed corner, and a three-window return to Rose Street, along with a one-window wide front to King Street.

The ground floor has channelled piers with a central doorway and windows that are recessed in splayed reveals, featuring segmental arches with mask keystones. The doorway and flanking windows are slightly advanced, with vermiculated piers and a ground floor entablature that is broken forward on consoles, topped with a dentil cornice raised in a pediment over the doorway. The first-floor sashes are recessed in enriched concave reveals with triple keystones above flat arches. The second floor has sashes in architrave surrounds with panelled keystones, while the third floor features small semicircular arched windows separated by large moulded panels with concave corners.

Additional architectural details include a plinth, rusticated block quoins, sill bands, a band course, a moulded frieze, and a prominent enriched crowning cornice. The smaller single bay facing King Street has a rusticated round-arched doorway with a keystone and pediment, an archivolted and keyed window on the first floor, a plain architraved and keyed sash on the second floor, and an inscribed round-arched window on the third floor with a key extending into the frieze. The first-floor windows are protected by cast iron guards, and there are cast iron area railings with finials and anthemion standards.

Inside, the building features a hexagonal vestibule leading to the main staircase, which rises beneath a domed ceiling that opens at the crown to a circular landing gallery on the first floor.