20, Cockspur Street Sw1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1973. Commercial office. 3 related planning applications.
20, Cockspur Street Sw1
- WRENN ID
- lone-sentry-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1973
- Type
- Commercial office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COCKSPUR STREET, SW1 82/38 20.6.73 No. 20
G.V. II
Headquarters offices. 1901 by William Woodward for the International Sleeping Car and European Express Co. (Wagons Lit). Portland stone with polished red granite ground floor, slate roof. Designed, appropriately for this French company, in late Franco-Flemish Gothic. Corner block of 4 storeys and attics. 5 windows wide with narrower 3 window return east elevation. Ground floor has central doorway flanked by display windows with octagonal shafted jambs and quadrant cornered lintels. Through storey ornate oriels to upper floors with leaded lights. Finialed pinnacles to parapet. Steep roof with gabled dormers. Angle tourelle with pepper-box roof to left forms part of symmetrical tourelle composition of east elevation with granite faced shop returned and 3 light mullioned transomed windows to 1st and 2nd floor framed by pointed arch surmounted by 3 attic windows in ornate gable end, the central window framed by pinnacles. Prominent corner.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ2985480389
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