Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors The Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors

TQ 30879 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT GEORGE STREET, SW1 92/33 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors G.V. II Institution headquarters. 1896-98 by Alfred Waterhouse with additions by his son Paul. Warm red brick with plenty of stone dressings, slate roofs. Waterhouse's personal version of Jacobean mixed with Flemish Renaissance and Gothic verticality. 3 tall storeys, basement and attic, the rear hall range to Little George Street and Parliament Square of 2 tall storeys and attic. Symmetrical 5-window wide entrance front. Central granite columned segmental corniced porch. Ground floor windows mullioned and transomed and framed by panelled pilasters; very tall 1st floor mullioned windows with 2 transoms, triple light 2nd floor windows with strapwork panelled aprons. 1st floor stone balcony; prominent crowning cornice surmounted over centre by elaborated, pilastered "Venetian" dormer. The east gable end enriched with stone bandings and crowned by ornate chimney stack. The hall range is linked by 2 bays of cross mullioned windows with gable attics and a recessed bay with lofty mullioned-transomed stairlights, the hall with 3 tall semicircular arched windows; quadrant south east corner.

Listing NGR: TQ3002879659