156-170, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information)

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REGENT STREET Wl 70/94 (east side) 22-11-73 Nos 156 to 170 (even) (including Nos 1 to 13 (odd) Beak Street and 62 and 70 Warwick St.) GV II Block of offices and shops. Begun 1904, by Crickmay and Sons. Portland stone and slate roof, with red polished granite to ground and 1st floors. Baroque-classical. 4 storeys, attics and dormer in steep mansard. Symmetrical facade 11 windows wide with slightly advanced 3 window flanking bays and bowed and domed corners. Mid C20 shop fronts to ground floor. The ground and 1st floors to corner, end and central bays have semicircular arched recesses flanked by rusticated pilasters carrying entablature. The architraved sash windows of upper floors have cornices on 2nd floor and central segmental pediment. The 3 window end bays have giant pilasters with block dressings rising through lst and 2nd floors carrying entablature and segmental pediments with carved tympana; balustraded parapets with lion finials flanking. The bowed corners have engaged Ionic columns through 2nd and 3rd floors carrying continuous entablature; columns carry on through their 4th and 5th floors to copper domes with cornices, scrolled buttresses and enriched lunettes.

Listing NGR: TQ2923180879