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Latitude: 51.4752 / 51°28'30"N
Longitude: -0.1527 / 0°9'9"W
OS Eastings: 528392
OS Northings: 176758
OS Grid: TQ283767
Mapcode National: GBR 9T.WB
Mapcode Global: VHGR5.95NX
Plus Code: 9C3XFRGW+3W
Entry Name: Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute
Listing Date: 7 April 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357653
English Heritage Legacy ID: 206986
ID on this website: 101357653
Location: Nine Elms, Wandsworth, London, SW11
County: London
District: Wandsworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Queenstown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wandsworth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Battersea Fields
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/02/2014
TQ 2876 8/3
5033
BATTERSEA PARK ROAD, SW11
Former Battersea Polytechnic Institute (Mountfield Mansions)
(Formerly listed as Westminster College)
II
Former Polytechnic Institute. By E W Mountford (189O). Long symmetrical Northern Renaissance composition of 2-storeys, attic and Dutch gables. Red brick, stone dressings, tiled roof. Frontispiece of slightly advanced twin gabled pavilions framing main entrance bay. Four-bay recessed ranges 2-storeys and attic link frontispiece to gabled end-pavilions. Each end-pavilion comprises on plan an inner segmental bay and an outer and more strongly-projecting square bay. Doric entrance porch with quadrant wings and high parapet, balustraded over the quadrants. Entablature of main door has swan-neck pediment and is flanked by sashes with high entablatures. Behind the porch parapet a round-arched first floor window framed in an Ionic aedicule. In frontispiece and linking ranges, attic pilaster order pierced by bull's-eye windows and capped in frontispiece alone by complex swan-neck pediments. In the gabled pavilions these culminate in aedicules with statuary. Gabled end-pavilions also have attic order, with statuary in niches. Steep-pitched roof with open octagonal lantern, ogival cap and needle spire.
*Extensions to north-west and west not included in listing.
Listing NGR: TQ2839276758
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