The Whiteley London

The building, originally designed by John Belcher and John James Joass was completed in 1925 with the 109-year-old Grade II listed building, located on Queensway, entering a period of slow decline following the opening of the nearby Westfield London mall. Whiteleys, once one of the great department stores of London, was originally founded by William Whiteley in 1863 and had as its slogan “everything from a pin to an elephant.” Whiteley was murdered in 1907 but his sons opened the new shop on Queensway in 1911 before the business was bought by arch-rival Gordon Selfridge and turned into a shopping mall in 1989.

Under the new plans, it will be transformed into 139 apartments and townhouses, 20 new shops and restaurants, a cinema, a large-scale gym, and a hotel and spa. Meister Masonry were employed to design & supply the Portland limestone façade. In total, the team at Meister provided more than 5,000 completed stones to the project, seeing our sawyers and masons complete 272m3 of finished Portland Broadcroft Whitbed product in a 12-month period. Many of the stones produced were of a significant size and scale and were produced as Ashlar, Curved Ashlar, Radial Ashlar, L-Shaped Quoins, L-Shaped Voussoirs, Keystones and Coping.

Main Contractor: Hounslow County Council
Value: £200k
Architect: Purcell
Project Type: Externals, Commercial, Restoration
Materials: Caen, French Limestone