Former Law Fire Insurance Office Number 16 (Excluding The Former Numbers 13 And 14/15)

The former offices of the Law Fire Insurance Company, built between 1858 and 1859 by Thomas Bellamy, with extensions to Bell Yard completed by him in 1874-6. The building is constructed with Portland stone facades and brick internal walls, likely incorporating iron. It follows a rectangular plan, featuring two central lightwells. The building comprises three storeys and a basement, with a later inserted mezzanine floor on the ground floor of Number 114 Chancery Lane.

The Chancery Lane facade, three windows wide, is rusticated and battered. It includes a central engaged Doric portico, corniced first-floor windows framed within architraves, with a band marking the set-back upper floor beneath a heavy moulded cornice and parapet. Sash windows and a double-panelled door with a top light are present. A portion of the original rear facade survives within the lightwell, exhibiting three round-topped glazed arches, corniced first-floor windows in architrave surrounds, and a parapet topped by urns. The inscription "RE INSURANCE OFFICE” remains. The facade facing Bell Yard also has three bays; the ground floor features enriched, round-arched windows, with a now disused doorway. Motifs depicting a fireman's helmet and axes appear between rosettes in the spandrels, and short return screens with pilasters rise to bracketed cornices under the first floor. Sashes with glazing bars are supported by heavy console brackets within moulded architraves on the first floor, while the second floor has architraved windows and rosettes under a modillion eaves cornice.

The interior remains impressive. The ground floor of Number 114 Chancery Lane has been subdivided, but heavy cornices remain on the mezzanine. A notable staircase features a sinuous curving handrail and an iron balustrade composed of Ionic columns, which appear to have bases on the lower floors. A historic first-floor landing has a screen of large Ionic columns and a balustrade between Ionic pilasters, along with a trabeated ceiling. A board room is complemented by a fireplace and a modillion cornice, also trabeated. In Number 16 Bell Yard, a side staircase with a curly iron balustrade ascends to the first floor, while the upper floor staircase features timber balusters and heavily fluted newels.