The National Liberal Club
THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066072
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The National Liberal Club
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05496/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1066072
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The National Liberal Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, WHITEHALL COURT SW1
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, WHITEHALL PLACE SW1
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, WHITEHALL COURT SW1
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, WHITEHALL PLACE SW1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30300 80242
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1 83/60 The National 5.2.70 Liberal Club GV II* Club and flats block continuing Whitehall Court. 1884-1887, by Alfred Waterhouse. Portland stone, slate roofs. Closely related in style and continuing main lines of Whitehall Court, q.v. but rather more Flemish Renaissance in detail and with tautly composed late Gothic "belfry" tower to north-east corner. 5 and 6 storeys with gabled pavilions and dormered mansard. Tripartite window groups separate gabled pavilions, one to Whitehall Court, one splayed to corner and 2 to Whitehall Place angled front terminating in tower; Embankment Gardens-nave front with similar gabled pavilions and terrace overlooking gardens; Pilaster mullion- transom windows, set in loggias on top floors of pavilions which have 3 storey canted bays. Enriched string courses and stone balconies;shaped pediment gable flanked by finials; tall stone chimney stacks. The polygonal "belfry" corner tower has rich Goth decoration and tracery to lofty windows and rises a full storey above the roof line;finished off with a conical spire. Ornately balustraded stone terrace above gardens. The interiors are lavishly and completely faced by Waterhouse in glazed, ornately patterned, terracotta tiling including the columns; the principal staircase, of marble rising in an unsupported oval sweep trough 3 storeys, is, however, an insertion of 1950-51 by Clyde Young and Engle. Part of the remarkable Whitehall roofscape.
Listing NGR: TQ3030080242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207622
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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