Five Kings House

Five Kings House (formerly Thames House) is an office building in the City of London on the corner of Upper Thames Street and Queen Street Place, postcode EC4R 1QS. It is Grade II listed, Number:1358918.[1]

It was built in 1911 by Thomas Collcutt and Stanley Hamp for Liebig's Extract of Meat Company.[2][3]

The façade contains architectural sculptures by Richard Garbe. Those over the grand entrance on the corner with Upper Thames Street represent Mercury and a female figure by George Duncan MacDougald (1880-1945).[4] The figures representing Abundance over the central entrance are by Frank Lynn-Jenkins.

  • Nude figures restraining Pegasus
  • Entrance
  • Wisdom in Commerce
  • Mercury, Agriculture and putti

References
  1. "69, UPPER THAMES STREET, 1-4, QUEEN STREET PLACE". Historic England.
  2. "Thames House, Queen Street Place EC4". Ornamental Passions. 3 May 2011.
  3. "Thames House, Queen Street Place, London, EC". The Victorian Web.
  4. "Five Kings House, Queen Street Place EC4". Ornamental Passions. 2 May 2011.


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