2, Queen Annes Place

No. 2 Queen Anne's Place is an Estate Office, then bank, now nursery, built in 1905–1906, possibly designed by Frank Bethell. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof.

The building occupies a prominent corner position and makes distinctive use of the site through elevations facing both streets and a striking round tower crowned with a copper-domed cupola. The cupola features classical detailing: the three-light ground floor window within the tower has mullions articulated with three-quarter Doric columns, and the drum of the cupola is encircled by a Doric colonnade. This corner tower treatment gives the building its landmark quality and signals its original commercial purpose.

The two principal elevations are more domestic in character. They feature Queen Anne-style sash windows at first floor level, a prominent dentil cornice, dormer windows with segmental pediments set within the steeply pitched roof, and tall brick chimneys. The classical detailing continues here: the chimney to Queen Anne's Place displays an impressive stone Ionic portico with a curved pediment containing carved cartouche, ribbons and swags, a dentil cornice and convex entablature. A secondary entrance on Dryden Road is marked by pilasters and a segmental pediment, above which sits an oculus containing stained glass. The ground floor windows have been replaced with metal casements. The rear elevations are functional in character.

The interior retains several historic features. The staircase features handsome newel posts in an egg-and-dart inspired design with ball finials set into the posts. The original main door survives, as do fragments of cornice in an upper room. Features relating to the building's use as an estate office or bank have been removed. The ground floor plan appears to survive largely intact.

No. 2 Queen Anne's Place was built as the Bush Hill Park Estate Office and offices for Frank Bethell, an architect, surveyor, and house, land and estate agent, who likely designed the building. The building served prospective purchasers of houses on the Bush Hill Park Estate, which had been laid out in the 1880s and underwent a second phase of development during the Edwardian period. Positioned directly opposite the train station—which had stimulated initial development after 1870—the building served as a showcase for the architectural quality of the estate, some buildings of which were likely also designed by Bethell.

In 1911–12 the building was converted into a bank, presumably after Bethell had sold all houses on the estate and closed the office. The building bears no date-stones or inscriptions, unusual for an Edwardian public or landmark commercial building, suggesting that Bethell intended to sell it once his speculative development of the estate was complete. London and Provincial Bank occupied the building until 1913, when they were taken over by Barclays, who continued trading from there until the 1990s. The building was subsequently converted to a nursery.