Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall is a building located on Wigmore Street in the City of Westminster, designed by T E Colcutt in 1904. It features a combination of showroom and flats with a concert hall at the rear. The structure is built from buff terracotta and topped with a slate roof, showcasing free northern Renaissance and classical motifs.

The building stands four storeys tall, with a steeply pitched roof that includes dormers and gables. The ground floor has a large plate glass shop display window in the center, flanked by pedimented doorways made of Portland stone, which have rusticated surrounds and blocked columns, with large voussoirs forming segmental arches. To the right, the entrance to Wigmore Hall is marked by an iron and glass canopy.

The upper floors are divided into three main bays by pilaster strips. The central bay features a pair of arcaded windows on the first floor, a triple group of cross mullioned windows on the second floor, and a triple group of arcaded windows on the third floor. Above these, there is a Venetian grouped attic window and an oculus in the gable, which is finished with a finial. The flanking bays have two-storey canted oriels and a pair of arcaded windows on the third floor, with a parapet that sweeps to a point and Venetian dormers behind. All windows are fitted with leaded casements.

Inside, the Wigmore Hall entrance leads to a vaulted passage clad in marble, which opens into a barrel-vaulted foyer. A marble staircase rises over a rusticated archway to a balcony landing with a bracketed balustrade that provides access to the upper level of the hall. The hall itself is barrel-vaulted, featuring an apse adorned with a mosaic by Gerald Moira, flanked by a shallow relief framed frieze likely created by Anning Bell. The ground and first floors of Nos 38 and 40 include showrooms decorated in a Baroque and neo-Georgian style, with panelling and pilasters, and the first floor showroom contains a reset Rococo chimney piece and a pedimented overmantel of carved wood, flanked by pilasters.