120, PALL MALL SW1

TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1 82/33 (south side) 5.2.70 No. 120 G.V. II Show room and offices. 1929 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Load bearing Portland stone ashlar, slate roof. Bold, sparingly detailed and subtly composed free neo-classicism. 2 storey podium for showroom with 5 floors of offices above. 3 windows wide. The ground floor is dominated by the off centre, large, semicircular, unmoulded archway of the showroom deeply pierced in the facade with pedimented doorway to left with mezzanine window above. The 2nd floor or rather 2nd mezzanine windows are deeply recessed and divided by piers which form the pedestal of the 2 storey giant "Delhi" order above with engaged columns to the central broader bay and antae flanking, the metal casements recessed and square headed with panelled aprons to those on 3rd floor. Giant order entablature over 4th floor, 1st attic storey surmounted by parapet with 3 balustraded panels and 2nd recessed attic storey, with central emphasis, the whole crowned by full width pediment. Survev of London; Vol. XXIX. Lutyens Memorial Volumes; C. Hussey and A.S.G. Butler.

Listing NGR: TQ2978580372