ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, GREAT GEORGE STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357063
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS
Statutory Address:: ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, GREAT GEORGE STREET SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357063
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, GREAT GEORGE STREET SW1
Statutory Address 2:: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, LITTLE GEORGE STREET

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:: ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, GREAT GEORGE STREET SW1
Statutory Address:: THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS, LITTLE GEORGE STREET

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 30028 79659

Details

TQ 30879 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT GEORGE STREET, SW1 92/33 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors G.V. II Institution headquarters. 1896-98 by Alfred Waterhouse with additions by his son Paul. Warm red brick with plenty of stone dressings, slate roofs. Waterhouse's personal version of Jacobean mixed with Flemish Renaissance and Gothic verticality. 3 tall storeys, basement and attic, the rear hall range to Little George Street and Parliament Square of 2 tall storeys and attic. Symmetrical 5-window wide entrance front. Central granite columned segmental corniced porch. Ground floor windows mullioned and transomed and framed by panelled pilasters; very tall 1st floor mullioned windows with 2 transoms, triple light 2nd floor windows with strapwork panelled aprons. 1st floor stone balcony; prominent crowning cornice surmounted over centre by elaborated, pilastered "Venetian" dormer. The east gable end enriched with stone bandings and crowned by ornate chimney stack. The hall range is linked by 2 bays of cross mullioned windows with gable attics and a recessed bay with lofty mullioned-transomed stairlights, the hall with 3 tall semicircular arched windows; quadrant south east corner.

Listing NGR: TQ3002879659

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Legacy System number:: 209883
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.