Lincoln Chambers

TQ 3081 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTSMOUTH STREET WC2 60/3 Nos 2 to 4 consec (Lincoln Chambers) including No 11 Sheffield Street GV II Chambers. C.1905 and stylistically close to H Fuller Clark. Ceramic brick and Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Original Edwardian Free Style design for offices. 3 storeys and attic. 7 windows wide. Stone faced ground floor has central, wide, recessed porch under lintel, the sides splayed-in with semicircular fanlight over central panelled and glazed door and flanked by side door and window with arched heads; good Arts and Crafts lettering in gold mosaic to name panel over lintel. Flanking the recessed porch are 2 large office windows of 3 ashlar flat-mullioned lights above small-paned glazed and tall risers to basement. Upper floors have box framed sashes with feature of central Diocletian windows to 1st floor and tripartite squat-columned windows to 2nd floor, the outermost windows treated as 2 storey, canted, flat stone mullioned bays, beneath gables. Deep stone eaves cornices running between coped gables. Coursed dormers in steep roof. Interesting island block development of chambers with No 3 St Clement's Lane qv.

Listing NGR: TQ3074981218