17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Headquarters offices. 4 related planning applications.

17-19, COCKSPUR STREET SW1

WRENN ID
open-transept-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1970
Type
Headquarters offices
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COCKSPUR STREET, SW1 82/37 9.1.70 Nos. 17 to 19 (consec)

G.V. II

Headquarters offices. 1907 by Sir Aston Webb. Portland stone on steel frame, slate roof. Lofty, restrained "Roman Mannerist" desiqn. 6 storeys and dormered mansard. 6 windows wide. Ground floor has 1970s shop front with facing carried up to 1st floor sills. 1st floor channelled with plain square headed windows; 2nd floor with architraved windows grouped in pairs with alternating segmental and triangular pediments; architraved windows to upper floors, the attic windows set in concave splays between piers. Dentil cornice below attic storey, and heavy crowning modillion cornice. Dormers with alternating pediments. Second and 5th floors have stone balconettes. Sculpted and coloured heraldic panels at 3rd and 4th floor levels and cartouche plaques flanking central pair of 2nd floor windows with similar plaque dead centre above them. Interior of ground floor has a wide painted frieze by Sir Frank Brangwyn.

Survey of London; Vol. XX.

Listing NGR: TQ2983980387

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