60 Jermyn Street

Aleister Crowley resided in a flat located at 60 Jermyn Street from March through May of 1907.

When the leases of Nos. 59 and 60 Jermyn Street expired in April 1883, the Office of Woods demolished the two old houses and offered the combined sites for a new building. The new lessee was T. H. Ayres; his architect was John Robinson of Middle Scotland Yard, but Ayres appears to have supervised the building operations himself. Work began in the early summer of 1884 and was completed in 1885. The Office of Woods had specified that the façade was to be of Portland stone and of a design equal in quality to that of the new Nos. 57–58 Jermyn Street.

The ground floor was originally designed with two shops, but in October 1885 Robinson was granted permission to change these to residential chambers like those on the upper floors. In 1904 Robinson converted the western half of the ground floor into a shop, although the present front does not appear to be of that period. (fn. 55) The upper floors were used for many years as service flats; they and part of the ground floor are now used by the Over-Seas League.

Robinson's front conforms with the main horizontal lines and proportions of its neighbour at Nos. 57–58, and is designed in an equally elaborate, but far less ponderous Renaissance manner. Each of the four storeys is divided into three bays, the centre bay narrower than the other two, by broad piers, or in the fourth storey by narrow paired pilasters, the last supporting a prominent bracketed entablature. The central bay of the ground storey contains an ornate, round-arched doorway with a Corinthian porch, and the remaining bays are filled with windows. The outer bays of the second and third stories have bay windows set in shallow recesses, and the fourth storey windows have round arches springing from pilasters. The third- and fourth-storey entablatures have ornamental friezes, and the pilasters are decorated, in the second storey by cartouches, and in the third storey by enriched panels. Above the crowning entablature rise three elaborately dressed two-light dormer windows, and at either end of the parapet is a tall obelisk with a ball-finial.