207-209, PICCADILLY W1

Nos 207 to 209 Piccadilly is a corner block of bank chambers built between 1892 and 1894 by Alfred Waterhouse, based on an earlier design by John Robinson. The building features a stone-faced facade that is intricately detailed with classical-Renaissance motifs. It includes a lofty banking hall and mezzanine, three upper storeys, and a dormered attic.

The facade has three bays facing Piccadilly, with a canted corner that contains the entrance and a three-bay return. The corner entrance is framed by a free Ionic order that supports a draped shield and supporters within a segmental arched aedicule. To the right, there is a secondary round-headed entrance in the westernmost bay, which has mullion-transomed mezzanine lights. The banking hall is highlighted by tripartite windows.

The ground floor is articulated by a rusticated pilaster order, which defines the tiers of stone mullioned windows on the upper floors. This order rises through an entablature to a shell-decorated frieze at the third-floor sill course and continues upward with monogrammed lesenes to a bracketed main cornice. The cornice is topped with a series of segmented pediments that crown the window tiers. The attic features pinnacles that frame fretted panels, alternating with paired mullion-transom windows.