Description

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER VICTORIA EMBANKMET SW1
83/34
Hungerford House
GV II
Former generating station, now library. 1900-01, by the L.C.C. Architects
Department, built as electricity generating station for street lighting.
Portland stone, slate roof (brick rear). Arts and Crafts Free Style Baroque.
1 storey and attic in steep hipped roof, on basement. 3 bay symmetrical
front articulated by pilasters, one bay similar returns and functional
canted rear for service and staircase. Central entrance with double doors,
recessed up flight of steps cut through plinth, in moulded jambs with
dentilled doorhead under fanlight and semicircular spaced voussoir and
keystone arch; the whole boldly framed by pairs of rusticated Doric
pilasters, on high pedestals, carrying break in entablature surmounted by
big semicircular pediment containing high relief sculpture in the manner of
William Silver Frith. The flanking bays have large semicircular arched
small paned casement windows with cyma drip moulds and cartouche keystones
carved with symbolic light rays. Deep plinth, with 2-light mullioned windows;
projecting pedestals as on entrance, to paired quoin pilasters; frieze and heavy
cornice surmounted by parapet balustraded between dies. The tent roof dormers
and the squat Ionic columned polygonal cupola-vent on of ridge of
more overtly Arts and Crafts design.

Listing NGR: TQ3043180390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081630

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas