View of 261-271 Regent Street, Westminster, looking south towards Oxford Circus. It is a part of an office-shop block that also includes 1-2 John Princes Street, 28 Great Castle Street and 240 Oxford Street. Designed by Sir Henry Tanner and completed 1928, the classical-style building is in Portland stone cladding with a slate roof; four storeys with double attics in steep mansards and pavilion roofs. Beaux Arts details include shopfronts with pilasters topped with wreathed shields crowned by cherub heads. A giant order of Ionic columns and pilasters frames the second and third storeys at right and left, above which pilastered and framed windows. The main entablature below the attic has a balustraded parapet. Above, corniced dormers; stone chimney stacks and roof ridges with bronze crestings and triumphal ornaments. The building is Grade II listed, listing number 1235121. In this busy street scene, traffic is heading north; a man in a light-coloured raincoat walks in the middle of the street; shoppers crowd the pavement. An ornate streetlamp rises from a traffic island with bollards and a 'Keep left' sign, and affixed to the streetlamp, signs, 'Mon-Fri, No Waiting, 8.30am-6.30pm'; 'Saturday 8.30am-1.30pm'. The ground-floor unit at number 271 is the premises of Lavells The Confectioners, with an awning over a shop window. A man is standing by the doorway with a surveyors measuring rod. A sign at left reads 'Music Publishers Ricordi' with an arrow to Great Castle Street. Further along, shops include Daws, a tailor, Smartwear, and Swears & Wells.