47 and 48, New Bond Street W1

Nos 47 and 48 on New Bond Street is a commercial palazzo built in 1906 by William Flockhart for J J Duveen. The building is located at the corner with Maddox Street and features facades entirely faced in cast Doulton ceramic "stone," designed in an ornate Italianate style. It has five storeys with a set-back attic storey, three bays facing New Bond Street, a rounded corner bay, and a five-bay return to Maddox Street. The original two-storey shop front on both elevations has a decorated bronze framework for the plate glass windows. Above the first floor, there is an enriched modillion cornice. The entrance to the upper floors is located at the right end of the Maddox Street front, featuring an open Baroque segmental pediment above the doorway with an oeil-de-boeuf above it. The second and third floors are very elaborately designed with rounded corners to the window heads, and each bay is articulated by composite columns on the second and third floors and Corinthian columns on the fourth floor, topped by a main bracketed cornice above the fourth floor. The building occupies a prominent corner site.