Whitehall Court
WHITEHALL COURT, HORSEGUARDS AVENUE SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266894
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Court
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL COURT, HORSEGUARDS AVENUE SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266894
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEHALL COURT, HORSEGUARDS AVENUE SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITEHALL COURT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
- Statutory Address 3:
- WHITEHALL COURT, WHITEHALL COURT 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:
- WHITEHALL COURT, HORSEGUARDS AVENUE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL COURT, VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL COURT, WHITEHALL COURT 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 30289 80163
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1 83/68 5.2.70 Whitehall Court GV II* Mansion block of flats. 1884 by Thomas Archer and A. Green. Portland stone, slate roofs. Vast elaborated pile with exuberant French Renaissance, Chateaux de la Loire inspired details. 8 and 9 storeys on basement with a further 1 and 2 storeys of attics in fantastic, pyramidal pavilion roofscape. 2 main pavilions to Embankment Gardens - river front; 4 pavilions to Whitehall Court, the main one with flanking cupolaed bays. 3 iron and glass canopied doorways. 2 and 3-light pilastered or colonnetted windows; those in main pavilions set back in semicircular arched loggias, in some cases run through 2 storeys; elaborate shaped and pedimented gabled dormers with finials rising in tiers against the pavilion roofs which are crowned by finialed cupolas; Chambord-like forest of ornamental chimney stacks. Enriched string courses and cornices. Decorative iron work balconies and window guards. Interior distribution fully serviced from the beginning with lifts; light wells with stained glass to corridors and landings, mosaic floors, etc. The roofscape makes a spectacular contribution to the view of Whitehall from St. James's Park.
Listing NGR: TQ3028980163
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207621
- 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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