229-247, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information)

This building, located at 229-247 Regent Street in Westminster, is a Grade II listed block of offices and shops. The central domed section, which includes Nos. 235-241, was constructed in 1898 by G.D. Martin. The wings were added during the rebuilding of the street by D.J. Davis in collaboration with Yates, Cook and Darbyshire around 1922-23. The building is made of Portland stone and features slate roofs.

The 1898 block is designed in a busy Free Classical style with some French Empire details, and it is 9 bays wide. The later wings are designed in a conventional classical style typical of Regent Street, with Beaux Arts influences, measuring 7 and 5 bays respectively. The building stands 5 storeys tall with attics, featuring splayed corners and 10-window returns to Hanover Street and 9 windows to Princes Street.

The central entrance of the 1898 block is arched and topped with a broken segmental pediment, flanked by mid to late 20th-century shop fronts set within a pilastered giant arcade that embraces the first floor, decorated with mosaic spandrels. Above the entrance, an oriel bow extends through the second and third floors, with architraved casement windows. The design is enriched with flanking elements and articulated by Ionic pilasters that support a bracketed entablature. The building features two tiers of attics, with small copper domed turrets flanking a central coppered dome on an octagonal drum.

The wings have mid to late 20th-century shop fronts supported by Doric columns carrying an entablature, with a rusticated first floor. The upper floors are fitted with architraved metal casement windows. A main cornice carved arc connects the 1898 block, and there are stone pedimented dormers in the mansard roof, adorned with Beaux Arts ridge crestings.