DOVER HOUSE SCOTTISH OFFICE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066101
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- Statutory Address:
- DOVER HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- DOVER HOUSE, WHITEHALL SW1
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTTISH OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTTISH OFFICE, WHITEHALL SW1
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- DOVER HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- DOVER HOUSE, WHITEHALL SW1
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTTISH OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTTISH OFFICE, WHITEHALL 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)
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30093 80028
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL SW1
83/84 (West side)
5.2.70 Dover House (Scottish
Office)
GV I
Former mansion, now government offices. 1755-58, by James Paine for Sir Matthew
Featherstonhaugh, enlarged for the Duke of York in 1787 by Henry Holland who
provided a new porticoed forebuilding with entrance hall on the site of Paine's
forecourt, rebuilt the west front and redecorated some of interiors. Portland
stone, slate roof. Restrained, elegant Palladian design by Paine with very
sophisticated Parisian neo-Classical screen by Holland. 3 storeys and dormered
hipped roof. 5 windows wide. The Whitehall front has low single storey wings
with pediments facing north and south, concealed by Holland's screen. This
consists of a central tetrastyle Greek Ionic columned, pedimented portico
projecting over pavement, the flanking recessed sections of fine ashlar rusticated
screen wall with entablature broken forward over 4 free-standing columns of the
same order, surmounted by neo-classical vases; the entablature and balustraded
parapet are carried across over the similarly rusticated blind end walls of the
wings. Horse Guards Parade front, with rusticated ground floor, has a 3 storey
one window south extension to its 5 bay front; recessed glazing bar sashes, those
on 1st floor pedimented and the central window of Venetian pattern set in semi-
circular arched recess. Continuous iron balcony to 1st floor. Modillion crowning
cornice and balustraded parapet. Holland's Whitehall portico leads, via vestibule,
into circular saucer-domed hall encircled by Tuscan pink marble columns on
drum pedestals and lit by lantern; staircase with bowed and segmental steps,
rises from the centre into Paine's house; behind west front,on 1st floor, the
north room retains compartmented Paine ceiling, the south room a c.1840
Italianate ceiling; on ground floor central room has delicate, painted Etruscan-
Raphaelesque decoration a la Bélanger, and the flanking rooms,with screens, all
part of Holland's refurbishment; good chimneypieces, etc.
Survey of London; vol XIV
The Life and Work of James Paine; Peter Leach
Henry Holland; Dorothy Stroud
Listing NGR: TQ3009380028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leach, P, The Life and Work of James Paine, (1988)
Stroud, D, Henry Holland His Life and Architecture, (1966)
'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Margaret Westminster Part 3 Neighbourhood of Whitehall Volume 2:Volume 14 , , Vol. 14, (1931)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing