Numbers 23 Albemarle Street And 16A, 16B And 16C Grafton Street

TQ 2880 NE 69/1

CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBEMARLE STREET, W1 No 23 (including Nos 16a,16b, 16c Grafton Street)

GV II

Purpose built shops and chambers. Dated 1896. Hard red brick and terracotta. Jacobean with some Art Nouveau Renaissance detailing. Prominent 5 storey corner block. 5 windows to Albemarle Street, corner turret and 5 windows to Grafton Street. Arched ground floor treatment for shops, their windows projecting in part as rectangular bays with glazed half "barrel vaults". Two 3-storey segmental and canted oriel bays to Albemarle Street, the corner turret corbelled with lead dome. Similar oriels to Grafton Street but one of 2 storeys only. Shallow relief Art Nouveau terracotta panel over Albemarle Street doorway. Corner turret columns have more conventional Renaissance decoration on shafts.

Listing NGR: TQ2898180657