111 AND 112, JERMYN STREET SW1

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER JERMYN STREET, SW1 71/90 Nos. 111 and 112 14.1.70 G.V. II Built as shop and woollen warehouse with offices. 1900-01 by Reginald Morphew. Portland stone, slate roof. Fine sober Free Style palazzo with restrained Arts and Crafts detail of high quality execution. 5 storeys. 2 windows wide with 5 sided corner turret and 3 window wide return to Babmaes Street. Bold and massive rock faced masonry to ground floor with 2 large segmental arched shop windows incorporating panelled and glazed doorways and 3 similar display windows set well back from corner along Babmaes Street with segmental arched office entrance with carved ornament to reveals. Upper floors have segmental arched 3 light mullioned casement windows, flat arched on 1st floor, with beaded edge reveals and egg and dart enrichment to arches on 3rd floor where Arts and Crafts metal wall plates are used. The top floor fenestration treated as an Ionic Colonnetted galleria beneath the deep bracketed crowning cornice. The corner turret has casements only in the 1st, 4th and 5th floors and is crowned by an octagonal belvedere with ogee roof. The floor windows to Babmaes Street are set well back from the corner enhancing its massiveness. Survey of London; Vol. XXIX.

Listing NGR: TQ2951880524