Admiralty House
ADMIRALTY HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1267114
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Admiralty House
- Statutory Address:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1267114
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Admiralty House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, 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:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, HORSE GUARDS PARADE SW1
- Statutory Address:
- ADMIRALTY HOUSE, 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 30066 80172
Details
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL SW1 83/65 (West side ) 5.2.70 Admiralty House GV I First Lord of the Admiralty's residence. 1786-88 by S. P. Cockerell. Stock brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Well-proportioned, restrained neo-classical front to Whitehall, plain rear to Horse Guards Parade; fine interiors. Built as enlarged residenceforthe First Lord the house has no main entrance but is entered from south wing of Admiralty. 3 storeys, basement and dormered hipped roof. Whitehall front 3 windows widely spaced with recessed centre. Ground floor screened by Portland stone forecourt/terrace wall with 2 plain doorways each end, finished off with band cornice and blocking course topped by cast iron balustrade. The 1st floor recessed glazing bar sashes are set in semicircular arched panels, the central window of Venetian design. Pseudo- parapet applied to 1st floor with blind balustrade panels below windows. Stone cornice and blocking course. Horse Guards Parade front 5 windows wide; plain recessed glazing bar sashes; first floor sill cornice, crowning cornice and blocking course. Fine interior with segmental vaulted, Roman Doric pilastered hall and a screen of same columns towards staircase (cast iron "rostral column" stove in niche); stone staircase with elegant wrought iron balustrade rising in single and divided arms with balconied main landings, lit by oval glazed dome; principal rooms on ground floor with reset chimney pieces in the Kent style of c.1721, etc. Survey of London; vol XVI History of the King's Works; vol VI
Listing NGR: TQ3006680172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Charing Cross the Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 1: Volume 16 , Vol. 16, (1935)
Mordaunt Crook, J, Port, M H, The History of the Kings Works in The History of the Kings Works 1782-1851, Vol. 6, (1973)
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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