1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall
1 and 2, St James's Street SW1, SW1A 1EF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264867
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2, St James's Street SW1, SW1A 1EF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264867
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 2, St James's Street SW1, SW1A 1EF
- Statutory Address 2:
- 64 and 64A, Pall Mall SW1, SW1Y 5HZ
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2, St James's Street SW1, SW1A 1EF
- Statutory Address:
- 64 and 64A, Pall Mall SW1, SW1Y 5HZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29330 80144
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 January 2022 to update text and reformat to current standards
TQ 2980 SW
81/105
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ST. JAMES'S STREET SW1 (East side)
Nos 1 and 2 (including No 64 Pall Mall)
24.2.58
GV
II*
Corner block of offices. 1882 by R. Norman Shaw for the Alliance Insurance Company. Red brick with plenty of stone dressings in richly striated chromatism and moulded brick decorative panels. Tiled roofs. "Queen Anne" closely based on Flemish Renaissance and French models. Four tall storeys, basement, two storeyed attics in gables and five storey corner turret. Six windows wide to St. James's Street, the three to left in slightly advanced gabled break. Stone banded ground floor has two large semicircular shop windows flanking enriched doorway with entablature - the window arches deep and moulded with alternating stone and cut brick voussoirs. Upper floors have mullion-transom windows, tall on first floor with two transoms, enriched heads and capitals carved on dividing piers. Figured brick and stone friezes and panels. Sill bands and cornices. The gable shaped with scrolled kneelers and pediment capping. The corner turret corbelled out from ground floor has mannerist pediments to windows and finialed roof. Return to Pall Mall has two similar large shop windows and similar fenestration and details to five bays above crowned by similar gable. First floor cast iron balconies on stone corbelling to both fronts. Lofty stone dressed stacks. Influential commercial design.
R. Norman Shaw: Andrew Saint Survey of London; vol XVIX
Listing NGR: TQ2933080144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
Survey of London in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, Vol. 29, (1960)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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