24-36, Lower Regent Street Sw1

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER LOWER REGENT STREET, SW1 71/84 (east side)

22.11.73 Nos 24 to 36 (even) (formerly listed under Regent Street)

GV II

Offices and shops. c.1910-20 by (Sir) Reginald Blomfield and part of his grand rebuilding of Regent Street Quadrant and the reorganisation of Piccadilly Circus. Portland stone on steel frame, slate roof. Beaux Arts inspired classicism in the grand manner, similar to former Swan and Edgar block and the County Fire Office and balancing the near identical Nos. 27 to 37 (odd) opposite, qv, defining the southern enclosure framing the debouchment of Lower Regent Street into the Circus. 6 storeys including mezzanine of podium ground floor and attic storey with dormered mansard. 8 windows wide (1:6:1) plus emphasised end pavilions, returned to north with 2 window wing projecting to Circus; 4-window return to Jermyn Street. Mid to later C.20 entrances and shop windows between rusticated pilasters rising through rusticated ground floor, mezzanine and low 2nd floor to modified cornice; the ground floor and mezzanine in the pavilions contained in large semicircular arches with helmeted heads mounted on keys flanked by swags. Recessed sash windows in plain surrounds but the principal windows of pavilions rise through 3rd and 4th floors with segmental arched architraves and open pediments on consoles and have ornate cast iron balconettes. The pavilions are given emphasis by channelled quoin pilasters and heavy attics with open segmental pediments. Bracketed main cornice with balustraded parapet over main range. Mansard has lead-dressed oval dormers flanked by scrolls and lead capped ridges. A staircase within designed by Blomfield gives access to upper floors of the Criterion, see Nos. 218 to 223 consec. Piccadilly (South Side).

Listing NGR: TQ2957680604