QUEEN'S TOWER

QUEEN'S TOWER, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE ROAD SW7

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231643
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S TOWER
Statutory Address:: QUEEN'S TOWER, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE ROAD SW7

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231643
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: QUEEN'S TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN'S TOWER, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE ROAD SW7

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: QUEEN'S TOWER, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE ROAD SW7

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 26648 79288

Details

TQ 2679 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER IMPERIAL INSTITUTE 94/8 ROAD, SW7 (North side) 14.1.70 Queen's Tower GV II Surviving tower of the demolished Imperial Institute 1887-1893. Thomas E Collcott. Portland stone with red brick bands; copper dome. Eclectic Renaissance manner. Four main stages with balustraded balconies between. Tall square shaft with pilaster strips; archway near base. Small arched windows at intervals, paired towards top. Dome with octagonal stage beneath having semicircular turrets and flying buttresses above four corners of tower. Cupola and gilded finial.

Listing NGR: TQ2664879288

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Legacy System number:: 406800
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.