CAVELL HOUSE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1066286
Date first listed: 08-Jun-1982
Statutory Address: CAVELL HOUSE, 2A, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
Statutory Address: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, ST MARTIN'S PLACE WC2
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Location
Statutory Address: CAVELL HOUSE, 2A, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2
Statutory Address: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, ST MARTIN'S PLACE WC2
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 30041 80641
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2
72/115 (east side)
8.6.82 No 2A - Cavell House (including
No 10 St Martin's Place -
National Westminster Bank)
GV II
Former Westminster City Council Offices and bank on St Martin's Place. 1890 by
Robert Walker, enlarged 1902 by A W Murray. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Plan
follows curve of street with free classical facade for offices and rather more Baroque
detail for the 1902 bank extension. 3 storeys and attic. 19 windows wide in the
rhythm 5:1:7:1:5 with canted corner to St Martin's Lane and 4-window return. Segmental
arched entrance to offices in northern single bay flanked by pilasters with Westminster
City arms over arch and balcony above. Bowed out corner
entrance to bank with foliage carved lunette. The plate glass ground floor windows of
the offices are articulated by rusticated pilasters whilst the 5 ground floor bays of
the bank are rusticated with semi-circular arched, mask keystoned windows. Architraved
windows to upper floors those on 1st floor eared with pediments over. The shallow
break of the central 7-window section articulated through 1st and 2nd floors by
Corinthian pilasters; the single bays flanked by rusticated pilasters with pediments
breaking the balustraded parapet in line with them. Entablatures above ground and 2nd
floors. Included for group interest on prominent corner site.
Survey of London; Vol XX.
Listing NGR: TQ3004180641
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 209096
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Survey of London' in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , , Vol. 20, (1979)
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