Sabadell House
Sabadell House is a London building designed by Edwin Lutyens and completed in 1931. Crane Limited commissioned the building with Crane Bennett.
The Canadian heating and sanitary engineering company intended its lower floors as showrooms, with offices above and a mezzanine visitors’ lounge. Holland America Line later used the building for transatlantic shipping.
Banco Sabadell later occupied the building, and its name appears above the entrance as a Spanish connection. The façade uses solid masonry and Portland stone.
A large asymmetrical showroom arch stands beside a pedimented doorway, a square mezzanine window, and three recessed windows. The four columns carry capitals decorated with small stone bells.
These details reflect Lutyens’s so-called Delhi order, a motif also associated with his Midland Bank design in Manchester. A maple leaf marks Crane Limited’s Canadian origins.
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