Westminster Council House

Westminster Council House, formerly Marylebone Town Hall, was built between 1914 and 1920 by Sir Edwin Cooper. This council house features a Portland stone exterior and a flat terrace roof, showcasing Edwardian Graeco-Roman classicism that emphasizes mass and volume in its broad fronted design. The building has a rusticated semi-basement, two main storeys, and an attic storey, measuring 13 bays wide, with the seven central bays protruding as a prominent centerpiece.

The centerpiece includes a central tetrastyle portico in antis, supported by coupled giant Corinthian columns and accessed by a flight of steps flanked by lion statues. The portico is flanked by slightly advanced one-bay pavilions, also featuring giant Corinthian columns in antis. The attic, which is set back and taller above the portico, is fronted by a balustraded parapet adorned with pairs of vases on the dies, rising above the bracketed cornice of the entablature. The attic windows in the centerpiece have armorial surrounds, while the wings have plain windows.

The return elevations consist of eight bays, with the terminal bays designed similarly to the pavilions flanking the portico. A tall square tower is set back, featuring a Corinthian colonnade above a plain base, with pedimented and recessed stages that rise into a stepped spire topped with an urn finial. A stone area balustrade surrounds the site. The interior has not been inspected, and the Town Hall is connected by a bridge to Cooper's later library to the west.