203-221, REGENT STREET W1

Nos. 203 to 221 on Regent Street is a long block of shops and offices located between Conduit Street and Maddox Street. It was designed around 1916 by Henry Tanner but was not completed until approximately 1924 by T.S. Darbyshire. The building features a Portland stone ashlar facade and a slate roof, standing four storeys high with a ground and first floor that function as a podium, an attic storey, and a steep dormered mansard roof.

In the Classical Beaux Arts style, the front is slightly asymmetrical with a recessed center. The windows are arranged in a rhythm of 6:3:7, with bowed corners and four window returns. The ground and first floors, along with a mezzanine, have mid-20th century shop fronts that are articulated by pilasters with engaged Doric columns supporting an entablature. The upper floors feature architraved metal casement windows, with those on the second floor displaying alternating pairs of segmental and triangular pediments.

A centrally placed stone dormer rises from the attic storey, featuring a large bracketed and pedimented keystone topped with a helmeted mask. The second floor windows have cast iron balconettes, and the roof is adorned with bronze ridge cresting that includes bronze shield motifs as terminal features.