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Portland
Buildings - The Behrens Building
 Curving around the
corner of Oxford Street and Portland Street, the
Portland Building was designed by the architect Philip
Nunn. It was built in 1860 for the Louis Behrens
and Son company. The building is four storeys
high but has 23 bays on the Portland Street
side. In the 1970s a Barcays Bank occupied the
corner of the block.
 The final 5 bays
on Oxford Street are framed in cast iron. It
is suggested that this may have been Mr. Behrens
office. In the 1970s this was the Koh-i-Nor
Restaurant.
 As you can see in the
image below, taken in March of 2011, the portion of
the building on the corner of Portland Street and
Oxford Street is called "Oxford Place". It also
sports a Bruntwood sign, indicating that it is part of
Bruntwood's fleet of office buildings in the city
centre.
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