Cannon Row Police Station

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TQ 3079 NW 92/22

CITY OF WESTMINSTER CANNON ROW, SW1 Cannon Row Police Station

GV. II* Police station.1898-1902 by J. Dixon Butler with R. Norman Shaw as consultant, as part of the New Scotland Yard extension (1896-1906), Victoria Embankment q.v.

Granite, Portland stone and red brick, slate roofs. Amalgam of Flemish and English Baroque sources continuing Shaw's original New Scotland Yard theme. L plan with screen wall to courtyard. Four storeys and attic main block with two storey range in parallel fronting Cannon Row and five storey east wing. The main range one window deep and seven windows wide. Ground and first floor granite faced with large rusticated doorway under cornice and blocking course in north gable end. Segmental arched casement windows those in upper brick and stone banded floors in stone architraves; rusticated Venetian windows to north gable end. The east wing has pairs of narrower segmental arched windows. Stone eaves cornice and stone dressed gables to main block with tall coupled banded chimney stacks. The granite masonry of north gable end ground and first floors is continued at slightly lower level as the screen wall to courtyard with pedestrian doorway and segmental stop-moulded and keyed arch carriage entrance; four storeys added above in similar style to east wing.

Listing NGR: TQ3021979769