Trafalgar Buildings

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, SW1 83/38 (south side) Trafalgar Buildings G.V. II Offices; former grand hotel. 1881-82 by F and H Francis. Stone, slate roofs. Large "Second Empire" palatial hotel block with quadrant return to Whitehall. 5 storeys and dormered mansard with 2 Trench square dome pavilion-roofs. 9 bays wide continued by 5-bay quadrant corner. Ground floor has central archivolt arched entrance and altered shop fronts articulated by polished granite pilasters carrying entablature. Upper floors have architraved windows, as tripartite sashes to pavilions and to centre range on 1st and 2nd floors, with cornices. Bowed window to centre on 2nd floor. The 2nd and 3rd floors articulated by giant pilaster order supporting main entablature; attic storey with 3 architraved Diocletian windows in line with pavilion roofs and to corner; stone pedimented dormers linked by balustrade with full 2nd attic storeys of 3 windows, the central one pedimented, above which rise the square domes each pierced by oeil-de-boeuf. Prominent corner site in relation to Trafalgar Square. Northumberland Avenue was opened in 1876 and became a street of grand hotels in the 1880s.

Listing NGR: TQ3009180352