View of the front elevations of buildings in Lowndes Street, Belgravia, and the junction with Motcomb Street. The buildings have four storeys, many with shops on the ground floor. At the left-hand corner is Derek Howe & Co. Ltd, an antiques shop at 23 and 23a Motcomb Street. Visible obliquely at 19 Motcomb Street is Pantechnicon, a stucco fronted building with giant Doric columns to the front elevation and its name in a vertical sign. Originally designed as auctioneers Sotheby’s arts and furniture repository (Pantechnicon meaning all the arts), the former warehouse now houses restaurants and bars. At the right, the street corner building is 24 Motcomb Street, with a shop on the ground floor. Next to it at 14 Lowndes Street is a shop advertising seventeenth- and eighteenth century English furniture. Parked in front is a Humber Hawk Estate car. A Greek Revival building dating from about 1830 and probably by Joseph Jopling, Pantechnicon was Grade II listed in 1958; listing number 1223569. Many other cars are parked in the streets including, in the foreground, a Citroen DS, a Triumph Herald and a Morris 1100 with registration RVV842. Dating from about 1830, numbers 20-23 and 23a Motcomb Street and 15 Lowndes Street were Grade II listed in 1970; listing number 1223570. Dating from the early-nineteenth century, a block of terraced houses at numbers 9 and 10, West Halkin Street, 24, 24a, 25 and 26, Motcomb Street and 12a and 14, Lowndes Street were Grade II listed in 1970; listing number 1274491.