21, Binney Street

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TQ 2881 SW 55/55

CITY OF WESTMINSTER BINNEY STREET, W1 No. 21

9.1.70

G.V. II

Former Church school and hall. 1889-91 by Alfred Waterhouse, as part of his King's Weigh House Church design (Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Duke Street q.v.). Hard, red brick and buff terracotta dressings, tiled roofs. Mixed Romanesque-Gothic style. Two tall storeys, on basement, dormers in steeply pitched roof and four storey tower. Five windows wide with main three grouped to right. Gabled porch to right, secondary round arched entrance in gabled bay to left adjoining tower. Large mullioned-transomed three-light windows to school room; three-light windows above; the tower has single and two-light round arched windows with large two-light mullioned transomed window in arched panel to second floor and triple group to top floor; the two top floors each corbelled and finished off with a low saddle back spire. The adjoining gabled bay is corbelled out over secondary doorway and has two-light windows of varied design. Three large gabled dormers to main block.

Listing NGR: TQ2842981025