Latitude: 51.5075 / 51°30'27"N
Longitude: -0.1308 / 0°7'50"W
OS Eastings: 529820
OS Northings: 180387
OS Grid: TQ298803
Mapcode National: GBR GF.SS
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.PC6P
Plus Code: 9C3XGV59+2M
Entry Name: 14-16, Cockspur Street SW1
Listing Date: 20 June 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1356947
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209300
Also known as: Embassy of Brazil
ID on this website: 101356947
Location: Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y
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: Embassy
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER COCKSPUR STREET, SW1 82/36 20.6.73 Nos. 14 to 16 (consec)
G.V. II
Headquarters offices. 1906-08 by A.T. Bolton for the Hamburg-America Shipping Line. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Free Style classicism. 4 storeys, attic storey and dormered mansard 4 wide window bays. Ground floor shipping-hall front in c.1920 granite frame with display windows flanking central doorway with columns supporting bronze figures of Britannia and Asia by E.G. Gillock (1920). 1st floor, articulated by rusticated piers has large mullioned-transomed leaded casements whilst the 2nd and 3rd floors have shallow oriels flanked by paired Ionic columns in antis through 2 storeys, carrying deep modillion corniced entablature. Attic storey with 3-light casements between panelled piers, has off centre right ornate aedicule feature breaking skyline. The interior of the shipping hall has mahogany panelling inlaid with mother of pearl and with Corinthian columns in the centre with gilded capitals; the ceiling has painted panels, inserted in 1920, by Lieutenant Geoffrey Allfree, R.N.C. Behind the hall is the unaltered manager's office with a black and gold chandelier of c.1920.
Survey of London; Vol. XX.
Listing NGR: TQ2982080387
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