London-knowlegeable people! Help, please!

[magid]

(For work, believe it or not) I'm trying to find the name of a triangular building in London (to get the dimensions, which is easier once we know what it is). It's near the Charing Cross tube station, on Strand Street on the southeast, on William IV Street on the north, and just behind St. Martin-in-the-Fields church. The descriptor of a photo of the area imply that it might be Coutts' Bank, or partly so, but perhaps not. Can anyone help?

ETA 1300 Many thanks to everyone who helped. The researcher assures me he now has enough info to be able to find it (and sends his thanks as well).

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[jaq.livejournal.com]

I'd go look but I'm not likely to have time til Monday. I agree it could be Coutts' but I'm not sure.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks. If no one else knows....
I'll owe you a (beer? pizza? chocolate?).

Is this it?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Image from Google Earth. Sadly, I couldn't get the name of it. A search for "Coutts' Bank" didn't highlight it, but I'm not sure that means anything - it thinks that Yoshi's is at College and Dearborn.

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[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's it. Thanks for the image.

(I'm not surprised there are still glitches; I'm still impressed that they do so much so well already.)

Re: Is this it?

[hrrunka]

Jessops (the photo store) have a branch at 443 The Strand, which is on the lower left corner of that building (as seen in the photo above). Ryman (the stationers) have a shop at the top right end of that building, and give their address as 430 The Strand. Coutts & Co. give their address as 440 The Strand. A little elementary stree-numbering suggests that Coutts is between Ryman and Jessops. ;)

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[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Do you know what the building name itself is?

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[hrrunka]

Offhand, no. All the places I could think of just give their street number, not the name of a building as well. Even Coutts & Co (coutts.com) just give their address as "440 Strand, London WC2R 0QS".

(Sent here by tigerbright by the way...)

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[magid.livejournal.com]

(I just figured out how you might've gotten here :-). And many thanks.

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[fairdice.livejournal.com]

This page (http://www.juerg.ch/london/strand-area/index.shtml) has just a bit of info about the building itself:

The building, often called the "pepper pot", is older, it was built in 1830 by John Nash. The interior was rebuilt in 1979 and is ultra modern and well worth seeing.

They also have a picture of the building, though not one which helps identify it as the one from the satellite picture.

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[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

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[fairdice.livejournal.com]

Actually I just realized that you can tell this is the same building as in the sattelite photo: the two roundish towers appear in the southwest corner of the triangle. Cool.

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Certainly sounds like Coutt's.

It's been recently refurbished.

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=530000&Y=180500&width=500&height=300&gride=530072.887531247&gridn=180430.119400337&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=GB&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&multimap.x=405&multimap.y=102

[magid.livejournal.com]

What a neat interface, with the map appearing on the satellite photo! Yup, I think it's Coutt's. Of course, now the challenge will be to figure out who'd be the people to contact to find the dimensions of the building...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

You could try the Land Registry...