125, PALL MALL SW1

TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1 82/35 (south side) 20.6.73 No. 125 G.V. II Office block. 1912-13 by H.R. Houchin and Frank Smee: Portland stone, copper dome. Eclectic Baroque for narrow but very prominent frontage closing Haymarket vista. 5 storeys as: podium ground floor with mezzanine and 3 main storeys and 2 tier attics under dome. 2 windows wide with one major bay on Pall Mall alignment and one narrow bay on splay aligned with Cockspur Street. Rusticated framework to ground and mezzanine with altered mid C.20 bank frontage. The major bay has deeply recessed bronzed casement windows in 3 storey tier to upper floors framed by channelled wall face. Entablature with prominent modillion cornice and parapet. Above rises a dome with 2 tiers of attic windows in the drum between scrolled voluted buttresses, enriched cresting-cornice and copper dome surmounted by finial with openwork globe crowned by weathervane of a ship. Tall corniced flanking chimney stacks.

Listing NGR: TQ2980380387