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Latitude: 51.5019 / 51°30'6"N
Longitude: -0.1253 / 0°7'30"W
OS Eastings: 530219
OS Northings: 179769
OS Grid: TQ302797
Mapcode National: GBR JH.1S
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.SJ40
Plus Code: 9C3XGV2F+PV
Entry Name: Canon Row Police Station
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357244
English Heritage Legacy ID: 208954
ID on this website: 101357244
Location: 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: Police station
TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CANNON ROW, SW1
92/22
Cannon Row Police Station
G.V. II*
Police station. 1898-1902 by J. Dixon Butler with R. Norman Shaw as
consultant, as part of the New Scotland Yard extension (1896-1906),
Victoria Embankment q.v. Granite, Portland stone and red brick, slate
roofs. Amalgam of Flemish and English Baroque sources continuing Shaw's
original New Scotland Yard theme. L plan with screen wall to courtyard.
4 storeys and attic main block with 2 storey range in parallel fronting
Cannon Row and 5 storey east wing. The main range 1 window deep and 7
windows wide. Ground and 1st floor granite faced with large rusticated
doorway under cornice and blocking course in north gable end. Segmental
arched casement windows those in upper brick and stone banded floors in
stone architraves; rusticated Venetian windows to north gable end. The
east wing has pairs of narrower segmental arched windows. Stone eaves
cornice and stone dressed gables to main block with tall coupled banded
chimney stacks. The granite masonry of north gable end ground and 1st
floors is continued at slightly lower level as the screen wall to
courtyard with pedestrian doorway and segmental stop-moulded and keyed
arch carriage entrance; 4 storeys added above in similar style to east
wing.
Listing NGR: TQ3021979769
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