Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building

The Former New Scotland Yard, known as the Norman Shaw North Building, is a Grade I listed structure located on Victoria Embankment in the City of Westminster. Designed by Richard Norman Shaw in collaboration with John Dixon Butler, it was constructed between 1887 and 1890. The building features red brick with Portland stone banding and dressings above a granite podium, topped with slate roofs. It showcases Flemish and English Baroque details, reflecting Shaw's transition to a grander architectural style, with a "defensive" character emphasized by corner tourelles, the granite podium, and a solid massing around a central court.

The building stands four storeys high, with a basement and three tiers of dormers in a steep roof. Its nine-bay wide elevation includes corner tourelles. The main entrance is located at the southeast corner of the south front, featuring a large semicircular arched portal set within a Baroque rusticated surround, complete with engaged rusticated columns and a large broken segmental pediment. The podium has plain square-headed mullioned-transomed recessed casements. The second and third floors are adorned with architraved mullioned-transomed small pane casements, with cornices on the first floor and segmental arches with keystones on the second floor. The second-floor windows facing the Embankment are topped with segmental pediments. The tourelles are designed as deeply corbelled bartizans with finialed cupola domed roofs, and there is a deep corbelled eaves cornice.

Both the north and south fronts are flanked by attic storeys, which are topped with distinctive large gables featuring broken segmental pediment aedicules and obelisk finials. The Embankment front has blind single-storey wings that project from the ground floor and are connected by tall cast iron railings that screen the forecourt. Additionally, there is a portrait roundel bronze of Shaw by Hamo Thornycroft attached to the Embankment elevation.