Mytre House, The Duke & Mytre Court, London

Architect	Denis Edmund Harrington
Date Built	1938
Location	John Street, Roger Street & John Mews
Description
This Grade II Listed building is made up of an eight-storey office block, a public house and a block of flats. The office building occupies the corner of John Street & Roger Street. It is described in the listing notes as, "... a steel-framed building with artificial stone facing to the ground and first floor, red brick above, and metal casement windows. The third floor is accentuated by stone banding which forms a continuous sill and lintel to the windows which are separated by panels of fluted brickwork. The set-back top storey has banded rustication in the brickwork between the windows and an artificial stone cornice. The set-back is particularly deep on the John Street elevation and here the cornice forms a projecting canopy, inset with glass blocks." The entrance, at 21 John Street, is flanked by two stone pylons topped with styalised sculptures of women in a style reminiscent of Eric Gill. Above the doorway is a date plaque. At the end of Roger Street, where it meets John Mews, stands the Duke of York public house. In 2010 it was described as follows: "On the canted corner of the building between Roger Street and John Mews is the entrance to the Duke PH which occupies the ground floor, .... ..... with a restaurant with separate entrance further along John Mews. ..... with its surround of tiles laid end-on." Beyond the pub on John Mews, is a four-storey block of flats, called Mytre Court, that features art deco style balconies. Historic England explain that the reasons for the building's designation as Grade II Listed were, "... *architectural:* a stylish design characteristic of the 1930s, which responds in scale and materials to the existing streetscape of Georgian Bloomsbury. sculptural embellishment: two engaged pylons with sculpted tops flanking the main entrance. materials and detailing: good brickwork and careful detailing on the pub and flats. intactness: an unusual degree of surviving original fabric in the Duke of York public house. planning interest: a mixed use development combining commercial offices with a block of flats and a public house, and therefore particularly forward-looking for its time."

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