18-20, COVENTRY STREET WC2

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COVENTRY STREET, WC2 72/117 Nos 18 to 20 (consec)

G.V. II

Former restaurant now part of Trocadero. 1892-94 by Treadwell and Martin, built as (the fatuous) Scott's Restaurant and Oyster Bar; now completely altered internally as part of the Trocadero complex. Painted Bath stone. Freely handled "Early French Renaissance" with carved enrichments. Corner site with Great Windmill Street. Gabled fronts, 5 windows wide to Great Windmill Street and slightly asymmetrical 4-window wide Coventry Street front with turret to corner. 4 storeys and attic in gables. Ground floor arcaded with stunted columns of polished dark Labrador granite on plinths. The upper floors have windows with quadrant corners to lintels articulated by slender through storey shafts with broad, clustered half shafts flanking the central 3 bays with gables rising above, pinnacled parapets. The corner has oriel turret with apron panels elaborately enriched with scallop-shell carving. Enriched carved bands between storeys. Prominent corner site.

Listing NGR: TQ2963280689