67 AND 68, PALL MALL SW1

This office building at 67 and 68 Pall Mall dates from 1928 to 1930 and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Constructed of Portland stone with a slate roof, it presents a free classical design with three exposed elevations. The building is five storeys high, incorporating a two-storey attic with pedimented gable ends. It features four bays. A tall ground floor is distinguished by a Doric order and two columns in antis to both the street front and the west return. A close set range of windows occupies the first floor/mezzanine level. The second floor displays architraved windows with segmental heads and sills within a banded shallow rustication. The third and fourth floors have plainly pierced windows topped with keys rising to plat bands. A plain coved cornice is followed by an iron balustrade, above which are the attic storeys with plain windows alternating with through-storey semi-circular arched windows. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the building and forms the base to the pediments of the gable ends. The pedimented attic storeys are designed to resemble a roof pavilion.