34 And 36, Oxford Street W1

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER OXFORD STREET W1 (north side) 58/2 Nos 34 and 36 II Commercial premises. 1912 by Metcalfe and Grieg. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Arts and Crafts office cum shop elevation with strong vertical emphasis in the manner of Treadwell and Martin. 6 storeys rising to a shaped gable attic. Broad single bay front. Ground floor and 1st floor/ mezzanine have mid C20 altered shop front and upper display window, framed by a full width label moulded semi-elliptical arch, the display window mullioned and transomed. A dentilled cornice with foliated and masked corbels separates the upper floors from the arch and from it to the parapet rise shafts dividing the front into 3 parts with central through-storey canted oriel with stone mullioned and transomed lights, carved on raised corbels that break into the flat arch of 3-light 2nd floor window; small 2- light windows flanking oriel. The parapet, with projecting capping and moulding crowning the shafts, sweeps up to the shafted gable containing a 3-light lunette and finished off with open segmental pediment.

Listing NGR: TQ2970281387