162 New Bond Street

A four-storey house built in the mid-18th century and subsequently remodelled for retail and office use. The building is primarily constructed of yellow brick with a slate roof. It is oriented on an east-west axis and has a five-bay plan, running one room deep. A central staircase connects the ground floor to the third floor, with a single room on either side providing access to the one-bay east and west wings.

The mid-18th century north (courtyard) elevation has five bays and extends over four storeys with a basement. Windows on the ground to second floors are horned six-over-six timber sash windows, with smaller three-over-three windows on the third floor. These windows are recessed and have stone sills, flat gauged brick arches, and a 21st-century stone stair leads to the entrance door. A sixth bay (east) consists of three storeys of matching design, with a fourth storey added around 1985. The corresponding western bay is concealed by a late 20th-century range (excluded from the listing) that encloses the west end of the courtyard. The courtyard itself is covered by a 21st-century glazed diagrid roof, also excluded from the listing.

On the ground floor, the west room of the main part of the house has full-height panelling with built-in glazed cabinets along the wall adjacent to the stairwell, an under-stair cupboard with a three-panel door, a chimney piece and grate, a modillion cornice, a dado, skirting, architraves, and window linings. The east room has similar decorative features, though the panelling has been removed, and the fireplace is now covered. The adjoining rooms within each wing retain fewer historic decorative features, but the eastern room retains its cornice, dado, skirting, architraves, and window linings.

The western room on the first floor, adjoining the staircase, retains a chimneypiece. Cornices, dados, skirtings, architraves, and window linings remain on this floor and the second floor.

Most of the panelling and window linings on the third floor appear to be from the late 20th century. Parts of the roof structure are visible.

The central staircase from the ground to the third floor has a closed string, slender columnar newel posts, upswept handrails, column and vase balusters. Original doorcases with panelled doors remain within the stairwell, and it is understood that the full-height panelling was reinstated in the late 20th century.