20, Cockspur Street Sw1

No. 20 Cockspur Street is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1901 by William Woodward for the International Sleeping Car and European Express Company (Wagons Lit). This building, designed in the late Franco-Flemish Gothic style, features Portland stone and a polished red granite ground floor, topped with a slate roof.

It stands as a corner block of four storeys with attics, measuring five windows wide, with a narrower three-window return on the east elevation. The ground floor includes a central doorway flanked by display windows that have octagonal shafted jambs and quadrant cornered lintels. Above, ornate oriel windows with leaded lights adorn the upper floors. The parapet is accentuated with finialed pinnacles, and the steep roof is punctuated by gabled dormers.

To the left, an angle tourelle with a pepper-box roof contributes to the symmetrical tourelle composition of the east elevation. This side features a granite-faced shop front and three-light mullioned and transomed windows on the first and second floors, framed by a pointed arch. Above, three attic windows are set within an ornate gable end, with the central window flanked by pinnacles. The building's prominent corner location enhances its architectural significance.