The National Liberal Club

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL COURT SW1 83/60 The National 5.2.70 Liberal Club GV II* Club and flats block continuing Whitehall Court. 1884-1887, by Alfred Waterhouse. Portland stone, slate roofs. Closely related in style and continuing main lines of Whitehall Court, q.v. but rather more Flemish Renaissance in detail and with tautly composed late Gothic "belfry" tower to north-east corner. 5 and 6 storeys with gabled pavilions and dormered mansard. Tripartite window groups separate gabled pavilions, one to Whitehall Court, one splayed to corner and 2 to Whitehall Place angled front terminating in tower; Embankment Gardens-nave front with similar gabled pavilions and terrace overlooking gardens; Pilaster mullion- transom windows, set in loggias on top floors of pavilions which have 3 storey canted bays. Enriched string courses and stone balconies;shaped pediment gable flanked by finials; tall stone chimney stacks. The polygonal "belfry" corner tower has rich Goth decoration and tracery to lofty windows and rises a full storey above the roof line;finished off with a conical spire. Ornately balustraded stone terrace above gardens. The interiors are lavishly and completely faced by Waterhouse in glazed, ornately patterned, terracotta tiling including the columns; the principal staircase, of marble rising in an unsupported oval sweep trough 3 storeys, is, however, an insertion of 1950-51 by Clyde Young and Engle. Part of the remarkable Whitehall roofscape.

Listing NGR: TQ3030080242