Ivy House, London

Grade II listing:- Hotel and offices, now office block and shop. 1905-6. By Bradshaw Gass and Hope. Stone faced with steel frame. Steeply pitched slated roof to eaves with 2 levels of dormers. Freestanding to front and sides. Edwardian Baroque manner. EXTERIOR: 6 storeys plus roof storeys at 2 levels. 5 bays with corner turrets. Rusticated ground and first floors, above ashlar faced. Main entrance on left hand corner; round-headed with rusticated keystone and voussoirs, cartouche over and broken segmental pediment. Square-headed windows except to 4th floor where round-headed with heavy keys. Segmental pediments to 1st floor centre windows and continuous cast-iron balcony. Cornices above ground and first floors; main cornice above fourth floor with subsidiary cornice to fifth floor. Giant pilaster strips rising from second, through fourth floor. Corner turrets corbelled out from first floor level rising to copper covered domes. Turrets have irregular, narrow, vertically set windows. Returns with broad segmental pediment above 4th floor and tall pedimented gable above. Tall slab chimneys. INTERIOR: retains original staircase and panelling to first floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: an early example of a substantial building of steel framed construction. (The British Architect, 1 March 1907).