Carlton House

TQ 2980 NE and SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER LOWER REGENT STREET, 71/93 ; 82/5 SW1, (West side)

22.11.73 Nos. 11A, 11B, 11C,11D and 13 (Carlton House) (formerly listed under Regent Street)

Gv II

Block of offices and shops. c.1907 by F.E. Williams. Portland stone ashlar with channelled pulvinated coursing to podium and smooth channelling above, slate roof. Busy classical elevation with some Baroque details. 5 storeys and 2 tiers of dormers in roof. Symmetrical 6-window wide main range with slightly advanced one-window entrance bays flanking and 2-window extension to right. Podium ground floor with mezzanine has recessed archivolt arched flanking doorways that of No. 11D with carved keystone; mid to later C.20 shop fronts otherwise - all beneath dentil corniced entablature. Upper floors have architraved sash windows with pediments on 2nd floor, the 6-window range with 3rd and 4th floor windows in archivolt arched recesses flanked by Ionic pilasters carrying main bracketed entablature; lower tier of attic windows to this range inserted in tripartite arrangement in the parapet. The flanking entrance bays (and the right hand extension) have swags to aprons of 3rd floor windows and above entablature. 2 storeyed attics with open pedimented bay and crowning domes surmounted by urns. Cast iron ornate balconettes to 2nd floor.

Listing NGR: TQ2959080483