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Latitude: 51.5061 / 51°30'21"N
Longitude: -0.1239 / 0°7'26"W
OS Eastings: 530300
OS Northings: 180242
OS Grid: TQ303802
Mapcode National: GBR JG.B8
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.SDVS
Plus Code: 9C3XGV4G+CC
Entry Name: The National Liberal Club
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1066072
English Heritage Legacy ID: 207622
Also known as: NLC
ID on this website: 101066072
Location: London, Westminster, London, SW1A
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Martin-in-the-Fields
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building Gentlemen's club French Renaissance architecture
TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1
83/60
The National
5.2.70 Liberal Club
GV II*
Club and flats block continuing Whitehall Court. 1884-1887, by Alfred Waterhouse.
Portland stone, slate roofs. Closely related in style and continuing main lines
of Whitehall Court, q.v. but rather more Flemish Renaissance in detail and with
tautly composed late Gothic "belfry" tower to north-east corner. 5 and 6
storeys with gabled pavilions and dormered mansard. Tripartite window groups
separate gabled pavilions, one to Whitehall Court, one splayed to corner and 2 to
Whitehall Place angled front terminating in tower; Embankment Gardens-nave front
with similar gabled pavilions and terrace overlooking gardens; Pilaster mullion-
transom windows, set in loggias on top floors of pavilions which have 3 storey
canted bays. Enriched string courses and stone balconies;shaped pediment gable
flanked by finials; tall stone chimney stacks. The polygonal "belfry" corner tower
has rich Goth decoration and tracery to lofty windows and rises a full storey
above the roof line;finished off with a conical spire. Ornately balustraded stone
terrace above gardens. The interiors are lavishly and completely faced by
Waterhouse in glazed, ornately patterned, terracotta tiling including the columns;
the principal staircase, of marble rising in an unsupported oval sweep trough 3
storeys, is, however, an insertion of 1950-51 by Clyde Young and Engle. Part of
the remarkable Whitehall roofscape.
Listing NGR: TQ3030080242
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