The Wolseley 157-160 Piccadilly including 1-3 Arlington Street

1-3, Arlington Street SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265803
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: The Wolseley 157-160 Piccadilly including 1-3 Arlington Street
Statutory Address:: 1-3, Arlington Street SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265803
Date first listed:: 30-May-1972
List Entry Name:: The Wolseley 157-160 Piccadilly including 1-3 Arlington Street
Statutory Address 1:: 1-3, Arlington Street SW1
Statutory Address 2:: 157-160, Piccadilly W1

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-3, Arlington Street SW1
Statutory Address:: 157-160, Piccadilly W1

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 29114 80356

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 March 2025 to amend the name and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2980 SW 81/66

CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY W1 (south side) The Wolseley, Nos. 157 to 160 (consec) including Nos. 1 to 3 (cons.) Arlington Street

(Fomerly listed as Nos. 157 to 160 (consec.) (including Nos. 1 to 3 (cons.) Arlington Street)

30-5-72

GV II* Large bank and office block. 1921 by Curtis Green. Stone faced, slate roof Imperial classicism. Four main storeys, attic storey and steep, dormered mansard. Three wide bays. Ground floor, including mezzanine, rusticated with two plain central Doric piers supporting large semi-circular arched openings with scrolled keystones; bronze window frames and mezzanine glazing screened by ornate wrought-iron work. Central entrance with secondary doorway to right. A giant order of fluted Corinthian columns, coupled each side of centre, articulate the vertically linked and set-back painted metal windows and aprons and support a deep entablature. Plainer attic storey with pilaster strips flanking three windows. Four dormers with pediments in roof. Similar but plainer return to Arlington Street with giant order of Doric pilasters.

INTERIOR: rich and intact banking hall of unusually high quality .Vaulted ceiling carried on Tuscan Doric columns. To the rear, a pair of side stairs rising to a gallery .Oriental scheme of interior decoration: red lacquer columns, U -shaped run of counters in black and gold, striking marble pavement in black and white. Counter screens not original. Original light-fittings with later attachments.

Awarded RIBA bronze medal in 1922.

Listing NGR: TQ2912080348

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Legacy System number:: 423860
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.