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Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building

A Grade I Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5022 / 51°30'8"N

Longitude: -0.1244 / 0°7'27"W

OS Eastings: 530281

OS Northings: 179813

OS Grid: TQ302798

Mapcode National: GBR JH.7N

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.SHMQ

Plus Code: 9C3XGV2G+V7

Entry Name: Former New Scotland Yard, Norman Shaw North Building

Listing Date: 5 February 1970

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1274511

English Heritage Legacy ID: 207390

Also known as: Former New Scotland Yard Norman Shaw North Building

ID on this website: 101274511

Location: Westminster, London, SW1A

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: St James's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Martin-in-the-Fields

Church of England Diocese: London

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TQ 3079 NW
92/19

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
VICTORIA EMBANKMENT SW1
Former New Scotland Yard
Norman Shaw North Building

5.2.70

GV
I
Metropolitan Police old headquarters. 1887-90 by Richard Norman Shaw with John Dixon Butler. Red brick and Portland stone banding and dressings above granite podium, slate roofs. Flemish and English Baroque details, marking Shaw's transition to his grand manner with a "defensive" note added by the corner tourelles, the granite podium and four-square massing around central court.

Four storeys, basement and three tiers of dormers in steep roof. Nine bay wide elevation plus corner tourelles. Entrance by south east corner of south front with large semicircular arched portal in Baroque rusticated surround with engaged rusticated columns and large broken segmental pediment. Plain square headed mullioned-transomed recessed casements to podium. Second and third floors have architraved mullioned-transomed small pane casements with cornices on first floor and segmental arched with keystones on second floor, the second floor windows to Embankment with segmental pediments. The tourelles are deeply corbelled as bartizans with finialed cupola domed roofs. Deep corbelled eaves cornice. The north and south fronts are flanked by attic storeys surmounted by distinctive large gables elaborated with broken segmental pediment aedicules and obelisk finials.

The Embankment front has blind single storey wings projecting from ground floor and linked by tall cast iron railings screening forecourt. Attached to Embankment elevation is a portrait roundel bronze of Shaw by Hamo Thornycroft. Richard Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint

Listing NGR: TQ3028179813

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