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Latitude: 51.4929 / 51°29'34"N
Longitude: -0.1207 / 0°7'14"W
OS Eastings: 530564
OS Northings: 178784
OS Grid: TQ305787
Mapcode National: GBR KM.20
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.VQKW
Plus Code: 9C3XFVVH+5P
Entry Name: Drill Tower to the East of 8 Albert Embankment
Listing Date: 2 December 2002
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1392338
English Heritage Legacy ID: 501189
ID on this website: 101392338
Location: Vauxhall, Lambeth, London, SE1
County: London
District: Lambeth
Electoral Ward/Division: Prince's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lambeth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: North Lambeth
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
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963/0/10129 ALBERT EMBANKMENT
02-DEC-02 Drill Tower to the East of 8 Albert Em
bankment
GV II
Drill tower. 1937 designed by LCC's architect E P Wheeler FRIBA, assisted by D Weald FRIBA as part of the London Fire Brigade Headquarters scheme. Square structure in brown brick in English bond 100 feet high. Nine storeys with two window openings to each floor. The top two floors of the front elevation are recessed with stone cornices. There is a stone band above the rusticated ground floor. There are two flat-arched windows to each floor, now with metal grilles, and the rear elevation has smaller openings to the lower five floors. This drill tower is set an angle to the main building on the edge of the former parade ground. The drill tower was used for training and the balconies at the back of the main Headquarters building were designed to be used as display platforms to enable over eight hundred people to watch weekly public drill displays.
TQ3056478784
Listed 02 DEC 2002
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