Lafayette — Westmoreland Street

Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay five-storey former office with attic accommodation, built 1898, having bow projection to north-west corner with canted turret to roof. Now in use as public house. Pitched slate roof having carved Portland stone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, carved stone finials and coping terminating in skew putts, decorative open parapet, carved eaves course with gargoyles and crossed leaf detailing. Gabled dormer window to front, timber bargeboards and finial, half-dormer window to west elevation. Polygonal slate roof to turret, decorative lead work, eaves brackets and carved nailhead motif to eaves course. Ashlar Portland stone walls, foliate carving to corners, decorative roundels, and carved string courses. Square-headed window openings, shouldered square-headed window openings, trefoilated window openings, set in square-headed and pointed arch surrounds, carved Portland stone surrounds, chamfered sills and carved sill courses, decorative foliate detail, gargoyles and egg-and-dart motif under openings to fourth floor. Timber-framed casement windows throughout. Pointed arch arcade to front and west elevations of ground floor, having carved stone cornice with marigold and vine leaf detailing. Carved Portland stone architraves to pointed arch openings having beading detail, foliate stops, carved string course at impost level and red granite Corinthian style colonnettes supported on carved string course. Elliptical-headed window opening and square-headed window and door openings with replacement windows and doors. Shield crest over doors to front and west having lettering on ribbon detail. Paired shield crests over door to west elevation with city of London and Royal coats of arms, and lettering on ribbon detail. Located at junction of Westmoreland and D’Olier streets, opposite O’Connell Bridge.