43, GREAT PORTLAND STREET W1 (See details for further address information)

This building, located at 43 Great Portland Street, is an office block constructed between 1906 and 1910 by architects W. and E. Hunt. It features a Portland stone facade and a slate roof, showcasing a bold neo-Grec design that is early for this architectural style. The structure has four storeys, with the ground floor and first floor combined as a podium, and includes a basement.

The building is five bays wide, with an arcaded rusticated podium. The entrance is situated in the central bay, designed as an Ionic columned aedicule porch with a pediment that rises in front of the mezzanine window within the tympanum of the arch. Flanking the entrance are shop windows, with a fret-ornamented band at the impost level and scrolls adorning the key blocks of the arcade.

The upper floors feature architraved metal casements framed by a giant Ionic order that extends from the podium to a heavy dentilled entablature, which is decorated with wreaths over the columns and antae, along with acroteria faced stops above. There is a moulded bandcourse at the second floor and enriched cornices above the second-floor windows, which include an open cartouche pediment over the central window. The section of the building at 43 Great Portland Street has a stone facade of similar character but is plainer in design.