View looking north-east, showing a terrace of buildings with ground-floor shops at 33-36 New Bond Street, Mayfair. Number 33 has four storeys plus dormer. The ground-floor Georgian-style bay window is flanked by Ionic columns. The name, "Sotheby's" can be seen above the ground floor. The central window panel on the first floor is covered by a blind. There is a flagpole visible. Number 34-35 was originally an early eighteenth-century terraced house, altered in the mid-nineteenth century to become auction rooms. It had previously been used as galleries for the French artist, Gustave Dore, a parfumiers and a public house called, "The Black Horse". The cellars were used as stores for paintings when it became an auction house. Sotheby's moved to these new premises in 1917. The three-storey building with attic rooms has a four-window range above a central Gothicised entrance porch, which is obscured by a newspaper kiosk. There are magazines in the kiosk display windows. Above is a gable containing an Egyptian bust of the lion-goddess, Sekhmet, from the eighteenth dynasty c1320 BC. It is Sotheby's unofficial mascot. The porch is flanked by two large arch-shaped entrances. There is a union flag visible above the Sotheby's name. The building is Grade II listed; listing number 1266836. Number 36 is a three-storey, three-window range building plus dormer and stone balustrade. The ground-floor shop is trading as, "Medway Shoes". Handbags can be seen in the display window. Pedestrians can be seen in the street. There is a Ford Transit van, a Bedford van and a Rover P5 car parked in the street.