Stanley Gordon Jeeves [also known as Gordon Jeeves] was born in Siddington, Bedfordshire, England on 3 January 1888. Nothing is known about where or with whom he trained as an architect. By the early 1920s he was in independent practice.
Jeeves was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA) and in 1925 was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA). His address was given as 4, George Street, Hanover Square, London in 1923 and 1938; and Flat 4, 8 Kings Gardens, Hove, Sussex in 1939. He died in Cuckfield, Sussex in 1976
Jeeves served in the British Army between 1914 and 1920 and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry.
Jeeves mainly designed commercial buildings. In the late 1928-29, in association with the American architect Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934), he designed Ideal House for the National Radiator Company on Great Marlborough Street and Argyle Street, London. Other buildings by Jeeves included Celanese House, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London (1920s); Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, with Edwin Landseer Lutyens and Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie (1929); Drage's department store, 73-77 Oxford Street, London, with Herbert Arthur Welch (1884-1953) (1931); Latymer Court, Hammersmith Road, London (1934); Dolphin Square, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, London (1937); Berkeley Square House, Mayfair, London, with Hector O. Hamilton and Scott, Brownrigg & Turner (1938).
Edwards, Arthur Trystan. ‘The Clash of Colour or the Moor of Argyll Street’. The Architectural Review June 1929 pp. 289-299 [A report on Ideal House]
Harwood, Elain. Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the Interwar Years. London: Batsford, 2019