Cannon Row Police Station

Cannon Row Police Station is a Grade II* listed police station built between 1898 and 1902 by J. Dixon Butler, with R. Norman Shaw as a consultant. It was constructed as part of the New Scotland Yard extension from 1896 to 1906, located on Victoria Embankment.

The building is made of granite, Portland stone, and red brick, with slate roofs. It features an amalgamation of Flemish and English Baroque architectural styles, continuing the theme established by Shaw for the original New Scotland Yard. The layout is L-shaped, with a screen wall enclosing a courtyard. The main block has four storeys and an attic, alongside a two-storey range that faces Cannon Row and a five-storey east wing. The main range is one window deep and seven windows wide, with the ground and first floors faced in granite. It has a large rusticated doorway beneath a cornice and blocking course at the north gable end. The windows are segmental arched casement types, with those on the upper floors featuring brick and stone banded designs in stone architraves. The north gable end includes rusticated Venetian windows. The east wing has pairs of narrower segmental arched windows. The main block is topped with a stone eaves cornice and stone-dressed gables, featuring tall coupled banded chimney stacks. The granite masonry of the north gable end at the ground and first floors continues at a slightly lower level as the screen wall to the courtyard, which includes a pedestrian doorway and a segmental stop-moulded and keyed arch carriage entrance. Four additional storeys were added above in a style similar to the east wing.