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Harrow Road Police Station

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5235 / 51°31'24"N

Longitude: -0.1993 / 0°11'57"W

OS Eastings: 525020

OS Northings: 182049

OS Grid: TQ250820

Mapcode National: GBR C7.NFW

Mapcode Global: VHGQR.HYHY

Plus Code: 9C3XGRF2+C7

Entry Name: Harrow Road Police Station

Listing Date: 1 July 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1263477

English Heritage Legacy ID: 432178

ID on this website: 101263477

Location: Westbourne Green, Westminster, London, W9

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: Westbourne

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Emmanuel Harrow Road

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


HARROW ROAD
TQ2582SW
1900-/29/10010 No 325, Harrow Road
Police Station
II
Police Station. 1911-12 by John Dixon Butler, architect and surveyor
to the Metropolitan Police. Red brick with stone dressings and quoins.
Tiled, gabled mansard roofs. Courtyard plan. 9 windows. 3 storeys,
attic & semi-basement. Main entrance to right in penultimate bay with
stone doorcase having broken pediment supported on elongated swelling
brackets; architrave doorway with keystones. Outer & central
pedimented bays with stone, canted bays rising from the semi-basement
to the 1st floor. Ground floor & bay windows are casements with
glazing bars to top panels; ground floor stone architraved. 1st & 2nd
floor sashes with glazing bars & central modillions; 1st floor gauged
brick heads with keystones. Entablature with projecting modillion
cornice extending to gables to form pediments; central gable with
Venetian-type windows. A stone balustrade fronts the mansard roof with
dormers & links the gables. Attached cast iron railings to area, with
lamp standard at base of steps having a crenelated lantern with blue
glass inscribed "Police" in white and surmounted by a crown. Interior
provides offices with living accommodation; cell block to rear of
courtyard. A fine example of a "first class town station".


Listing NGR: TQ2502082049

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