CANON ROW POLICE STATION

CANON ROW POLICE STATION, CANON 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:: CANON ROW POLICE STATION
Statutory Address:: CANON ROW POLICE STATION, CANON ROW SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1357244
Date first listed:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: CANON ROW POLICE STATION
Statutory Address 1:: CANON ROW POLICE STATION, CANON ROW SW1

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.

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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:: CANON ROW POLICE STATION, CANON 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

TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CANNON ROW, SW1 92/22 Cannon Row Police Station

G.V. 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. 4 storeys and attic main block with 2 storey range in parallel fronting Cannon Row and 5 storey east wing. The main range 1 window deep and 7 windows wide. Ground and 1st 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 1st 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; 4 storeys added above in similar style to east wing.

Listing NGR: TQ3021979769

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Legacy System number:: 208954
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.