3, WHITEHALL SW1
3, WHITEHALL SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224053
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 3, WHITEHALL SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 3, WHITEHALL SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224053
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 3, WHITEHALL SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, WHITEHALL SW1
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.
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:
- 3, 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)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30073 80347
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL SW1 (east side) 83/42 No 3. GV II Offices and shop. c.1890-1900 (possibly with 1910-20 alteration of window bays). Portland stone and polished granite on what may be early steel frame; slate roof. Ornate, vaguely French Renaissance, tripartite, superimposed order composition of narrow frontage. 4 storeys, attic storey and dormered pavilion roof. 3 windows wide. Ground floor has modern shop front but retains tripartite articulation of Doric columns carrying entablature. The window bays are run through vertically from 1st to 3rd floors, with bronzed casements and metal apron panels (may be original or alteration of 1910-20); the openings are finished off above 3rd floor pilaster jambs with blind archivolt arches carved with shell fans, the centre one with keystone. Three-quarter giant Ionic columns articulate 1st and 2nd floors with dosserets over capitals carrying the 3rd floor Corinthian order. Deep, enriched crowning entablature with balustraded parapet and ornate Baroque vases, in front of attic storey with secondary cornice surmounted by central pedimented elaborated stone dormer.
Listing NGR: TQ3007380347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207603
- 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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