1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street)

2, Great Peter Street SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1267603
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street)
Statutory Address:: 2, Great Peter Street SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1267603
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street)
Statutory Address 1:: 2, Great Peter Street SW1
Statutory Address 2:: 3, Great College Street SW1
Statutory Address 3:: 5 and 7, Little College Street SW1
Statutory Address 4:: The Church Commissioners, 1 and 2, Millbank SW1

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

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: 2, Great Peter Street SW1
Statutory Address:: 3, Great College Street SW1
Statutory Address:: 5 and 7, Little College Street SW1
Statutory Address:: The Church Commissioners, 1 and 2, Millbank 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 30176 79257

Details

TQ 3079 SW 101/43

CITY OF WESTMINSTER MILLBANK, SW1 Nos 1 and 2, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street)

5.2.70 II* Large island block of offices. 1903 by W.D Caröe. Red brick with lavish Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. An eclectic yet sophisticated Free Style northern Renaissance design including Renaissance Plateresque motifs, only slightly asymmetrical and with "rational" expression of staircase fenestration, five and six storeys plus two tiers of dormered attics. Close set window ranges and corner 'staircase towers'. Recessed entrance bays to Millbank and to Little College Street with enriched stone doorcases. Stone dressed sash and mullioned-transomed casements with scrolled pediments on first floor. The central range of windows to each front through first to second floors are prominently articulated by scrolled buttresses with Plateresque pinnacles. Bowed oriels to outer bays. Arcaded loggias to top floor. Shaped gables in parapet and pyramidal roofed corner towers.

Listing NGR: TQ3016579262

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Legacy System number:: 418227
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.