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Latitude: 51.4829 / 51°28'58"N
Longitude: -0.0087 / 0°0'31"W
OS Eastings: 538370
OS Northings: 177870
OS Grid: TQ383778
Mapcode National: GBR L1.8HY
Mapcode Global: VHGR1.SZSM
Plus Code: 9C3XFXMR+4G
Entry Name: Royal Naval College Pepys Building
Listing Date: 13 February 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1214382
English Heritage Legacy ID: 399181
ID on this website: 101214382
Location: Greenwich, London, SE10
County: London
District: Greenwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Greenwich West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Greenwich
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Greenwich St Alfege
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 3877 ROMNEY ROAD
(north side)
786-/26/10043 Royal Naval College
"Pepys Building"
GV II
Former rackets courts, now laboratories. The western block 1874-5 by Colonel Clarke RE, the
central screen and eastern part identical in design and added in 1882-3 by General Pudsey RE to
form a symmetrical composition. Converted to laboratories in c.1906. Stone and stuccoed facades,
roof hidden by high parapets. Seven-bay screen with higher two-bay ends. Tuscan pilasters across
screen break forward into pairs of Ionic columns set between engaged columns with fluted capitals,
all these in antis under projecting parapets at ends. The parapets are elaborate, with raised
centrepieces supported on swags and urns set on high and elaborately carved plinths as
cornerpieces; all this decoration the work of C R Smith. Rusticated ground floor. At first-floor
height busts in high relief set in roundels depict from east to west: Anson, Drake, Cook, Howard,
Blake, Benbow, Sandwich, Rodney, Duncan, Collingwood, Howe, Nelson and St Vincent.
Nine-bay side elevations and three-bay rear also denoted by pilasters, the ground floor rusticated
under fluted frieze and with empty first-floor roundels. Above these a deep frieze and an attic
storey also broken into bays by short pilaster strips.
Source:
PRO ADM 195/47, 20-24
Listing NGR: TQ3837077870
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