Dorland House

Dorland House is an office block with shops, built between 1924 and 1928 by J.J. Joass. It features a Portland stone-clad exterior, a steel frame, and a slate roof, showcasing a Beaux Arts influenced style that reflects the classicism of the rebuilt Regent Street. The building stands six storeys tall, including a podium ground floor with a mezzanine and two tiers of attics in a mansard roof.

The front facade is eight windows wide, with three-window wings and an eight-window return to Carlton Street. Although the ground floor office entrance and shop windows have been altered, the original design includes dividing pilasters and engaged Doric columns in the wings that rise through the mezzanine to support a continuous entablature. This entablature features a cast iron balcony adorned with stone urns on pedestals at the center of the second floor. The second floor has rusticated ashlar facing, and the third floor includes recessed metal casements set in architraves, topped with cornices.

A deep entablature with a bracketed cornice and a balustraded parapet, which is surmounted by urns, completes the upper part of the building. The mansard roof is detailed with lead dressings on the dormers and triumphal ornaments at the corners of the wings.