1893 – Scott’s Supper Rooms, Coventry Street, London

Originating as “Scott’s oyster rooms” in Haymarket in the 1850s or earlier, it would become “Scott’s Oyster and Supper Rooms” on Coventry Street in 1891, and moved to its present location in Mount Street in 1967. Three buildings were demolished with this French Renaissance inspired building in Bath stone to the design of architects Treadwell and Martin.

Wine and coffee bars, ‘lobster-boiling rooms’, etc., were planned for the basement, oyster bars and a grill-room for the ground floor, with three floors of dining-rooms above, and pantries and sculleries on the top floor. The two façades on this corner site are related, each having a gable (one dated 1892, the other 1894) and there is an octagonal oriel-turret at the angle, with carved panels containing scallop-shells. Bands of carved vegetation are still visible on the Great Windmill Street front. The plinth and stunted columns of polished dark Labrador granite, and the unpolished Kemnay granite up to the first-floor sills have been coloured black and the Bath stone above appears to have been painted.”
Survey of London, 1963