Cannon Row Police Station
Cannon Row Police Station, Cannon Row SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357244
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cannon Row Police Station
- Statutory Address:
- Cannon Row Police Station, Cannon Row SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357244
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cannon Row Police Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- Cannon Row Police Station, Cannon Row SW1
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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:
- Cannon Row Police Station, Cannon Row 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 30219 79769
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 August 2025 to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 3079 NW
92/22
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
CANNON ROW, SW1
Cannon Row Police Station
GV.
II*
Police station.1898-1902 by J. Dixon Butler with R. Norman Shaw as consultant, as part of the New Scotland Yard extension (1896-1906), Victoria Embankment q.v.
Granite, Portland stone and red brick, slate roofs. Amalgam of Flemish and English Baroque sources continuing Shaw's original New Scotland Yard theme. L plan with screen wall to courtyard. Four storeys and attic main block with two storey range in parallel fronting Cannon Row and five storey east wing. The main range one window deep and seven windows wide. Ground and first floor granite faced with large rusticated doorway under cornice and blocking course in north gable end. Segmental arched casement windows those in upper brick and stone banded floors in stone architraves; rusticated Venetian windows to north gable end. The east wing has pairs of narrower segmental arched windows. Stone eaves cornice and stone dressed gables to main block with tall coupled banded chimney stacks. The granite masonry of north gable end ground and first floors is continued at slightly lower level as the screen wall to courtyard with pedestrian doorway and segmental stop-moulded and keyed arch carriage entrance; four storeys added above in similar style to east wing.
Listing NGR: TQ3021979769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 208954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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