89 to 95 (consec) Strand, including Nos 2 and 3 Savoy Court

TQ 3080 NW 72/99

CITY OF WESTMINSTER, STRAND WC2 Savoy Court: 89 to 95 (consec) (including Nos 2 and 3 Savoy Court)

GV II

Extension of the Savoy Hotel complex. 1903-04 by T. E. Collcutt. Doulton's Carrara Ware terracotta facing, green pantile and plain tile roofs. Free Northern Renaissance with feature of corner turret instead of gables. Part of an almost symmetrical composition with Nos 96 to 104 q.v. 6 storeys and 2 tiers of attics in steep mansard. 8 windows wide (1:6:1) with 5 window return to Savoy Court (1:4). Original shop front of the Savoy Taylors' Guild on the ground floor with No 89 as public house to right and returned; the shop windows tripartite with arched transoms and colonettes, central shop door, between quarter Ionic columns carrying entablature; 1929 canopy to Savoy Court return. Upper floors have close set architraved casement windows, with cornices to 2nd and 3rd floors whilst the flanking bays have shallow 2 light segmental bow windows. To the corner these bows are fully developed as 3 storey domed corner turret with 3 light mullioned transomed windows between buttresses finished off with ball finialed dies. Bold cornice over 4th floor, sheer attic cornice and corniced and segmental pedimented dormers to mansard. Same details to Savoy Court but with bows to corner only.

Listing NGR: TQ3019780498