Dorset House on Marylebone Road
Dorset House on Marylebone Road
Record No
103269
Title
Dorset House on Marylebone Road
Description
A view of Dorset House on Marylebone Road, Marylebone, at the intersection with Gloucester Place. Dorset House, Grade II listed, listing number 1323725, is a block of 185 upmarket flats above an underground parking garage with filling station, built 1934-35 by architects T. P. Bennett and Son in Moderne-style with reliefs by Eric Gill. A steel-framed structure with concrete floors, faced in brown brick, Flemish bond with stone dressings, wrought-iron balustrades, and brick and stone balcony front. The building occupies a block bounded by Marylebone Road, Gloucester Place, Melcombe Street and Baker Street. It has a two-storey basement and ten storeys above. A sign affixed to the building reads: 'Dorset House; Flats; Remaining £230-£385 P.A.; To letting office & show flats. Shops; £190-£495 P.A.; Claude Leich (Management) Ltd., 16 Hanover Sq. MAY 5454; Folkard & Hayward, 115 Baker St, NW1; WEL 8181'. In this view, Moons, the garage and filling station, is shown. An illuminated sign reads: 'Garage 300 cars' with an arrow pointing to underground parking. A man is at a pump filling a car with petrol; another car waits behind. At left, a car showroom. The photograph is taken in front of The Allsop Arms (also known as Allsop House), 172 Marylebone Road, a public house demolished late 1950s and replaced by Castrol House.
Date of execution
1937
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_316_B4374
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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