Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building
Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, New Scotland Yard SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1274511
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- Statutory Address:
- Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, New Scotland Yard SW1
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- Date:
- 2004-03-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/11752/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Anthony Rau. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1274511
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, New Scotland Yard SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, Victoria Embankment SW1
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, New Scotland Yard SW1
- Statutory Address:
- Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building, Victoria Embankment 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 30281 79813
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 January 2021 to correct spelling of person's name, and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3079 NW
92/19
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
Former New Scotland Yard
Norman Shaw North Building
5.2.70
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Metropolitan Police old headquarters. 1887-90 by Richard Norman Shaw with John Dixon Butler. Red brick and Portland stone banding and dressings above granite podium, slate roofs. Flemish and English Baroque details, marking Shaw's transition to his grand manner with a "defensive" note added by the corner tourelles, the granite podium and four-square massing around central court.
Four storeys, basement and three tiers of dormers in steep roof. Nine bay wide elevation plus corner tourelles. Entrance by south east corner of south front with large semicircular arched portal in Baroque rusticated surround with engaged rusticated columns and large broken segmental pediment. Plain square headed mullioned-transomed recessed casements to podium. Second and third floors have architraved mullioned-transomed small pane casements with cornices on first floor and segmental arched with keystones on second floor, the second floor windows to Embankment with segmental pediments. The tourelles are deeply corbelled as bartizans with finialed cupola domed roofs. Deep corbelled eaves cornice. The north and south fronts are flanked by attic storeys surmounted by distinctive large gables elaborated with broken segmental pediment aedicules and obelisk finials.
The Embankment front has blind single storey wings projecting from ground floor and linked by tall cast iron railings screening forecourt. Attached to Embankment elevation is a portrait roundel bronze of Shaw by Hamo Thornycroft. Richard Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint
Listing NGR: TQ3028179813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
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