Inveresk House

Inveresk House is an office block constructed between 1906 and 1907 by Mewes and Davis, originally designed as the offices for the Morning Post newspaper. The attic storeys were rebuilt and raised in the late 1920s. The building is faced with Norwegian granite, supported by an early steel frame, and has a slate and copper roof. It exhibits a highly decorative "Louis XV-Louis XVI" design, intended to complement the curved form of Aldwych, though the later alterations to the attic detract from the original aesthetic.

The building stands four stories high with two tiers of dormers in a steep mansard roof, topped by a cupola dome over the Strand corner. It has twelve windows facing the Aldwych quadrant, a single-window curved corner, eleven windows on Wellington Street, and nine windows fronting Exeter Street.

The main entrance is on the bowed Strand corner, with central entrances to each of the three frontages. These entrances have semicircular arched recesses, ornamented with keystones featuring female heads; the entrance to No. 346 Strand is distinguished by large flanking console brackets with garland swags linking the keystone and supporting a break in the cornice and a shallow balustraded balcony with draped flanking dies. Similar, smaller consoles and balconies feature above the entrances on each return.

The ground floor has channelled windows with large semicircular arches and console keys; the bays adjacent to the bowed Strand corner include plain, blind doorways topped with enriched oeil de boeuf windows. The first and second floor windows are vertically grouped and recessed, with laurel leaves framing the heads of the second-floor windows and architraved third-floor windows framed by garlanded consoles supporting the main cornice.

The bowed Strand corner is further embellished with enriched architraves to the grouped first and second-floor windows, a cornice on console brackets supporting a wrought iron balconette to the third-floor window, and a finely carved, be-ribboned bar relief of trophies suspended between the second and third floor levels on a plat band. Balustrades in antis with wrought iron French balconettes are present to the first-floor windows, with similar balconettes in antis to the second-floor windows on the main elevations. The rebuilt attic features two-story, pedimented dormers and a coppered dome with an oeil de boeuf on the Strand corner.