Wood Street Police Station
WOOD STREET POLICE STATION, WOOD STREET EC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323699
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Street Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD STREET POLICE STATION, WOOD STREET EC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323699
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Street Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD STREET POLICE STATION, WOOD STREET EC2
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:
- WOOD STREET POLICE STATION, WOOD STREET EC2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32363 81471
Details
TQ 3281 SW WOOD STREET, EC2
(east side)
627/9/10133 Wood Street Police Station
GV II*
Police station, offices and flats 1963-6 by McMorran and Whitby for the City of London Police. Reinforced concrete frame clad in Portland stone and brick; slate roofs. A building of two linked halves. The lower portion of four storeys and basements, serves as police station with (originally) offices for special constables on ceremonial upper floor. Rusticated ground and first floor and large stacks. Regular facades with stepped fenestration: ten windows to first floor, seven to second of larger scale. Entrance under voussoirs and City coat of arms between traditional blue lamps on brackets. Rear elevation of six bays (with the third floor exposed); all windows are sashes with glazing bars.
To the side and rear a thirteen-storey tower of offices and flats, the latter with social facilities. Eight bays, their segmental-arched windows with glazing bars, under pitched roof with round-arched vent openings in gable. The two buildings linked and sharing common recreational facilities in basement, including the C. H. Rolth Hall. Interior not inspected but the public rooms understood to retain original features.
Donald McMorran was one of the most important architects to continue working in a sophisticated neo-classical idiom during the 1950s and 1960s. This is his best-known building; he specialised in police stations and this is his last and largest.
(Municipal Review, September 1966, London; Architects' Journal, July 1966, London, 6).
Listing NGR: TQ3236381471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Municipal Review in September, (1966), 6
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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