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© Mr G.W. Garthwaite LRPS
IoE Number:
418227
Location:
THE CHURCH COMMISSIONERS, MILLBANK SW1
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr G.W. Garthwaite LRPS
Date Photographed:
23 August 2001
Date listed:
05 February 1970
Date of last amendment:
05 February 1970
Grade
II*
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TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MILLBANK, SW1
101/43
Nos 1 and 2, The Church
5.2.70 Commissioners (including
No 3 Great College Street,
No 2 Great Peter Street
and Nos 5 and 7 Little
College Street)
II*
Large island block of offices. 1903 by W.D. Caroe. Red brick with lavish
Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. An eclectic yet sophisticated Free
Style northern Renaissance design including Renaissance Plateresque motifs,
only slightly asymmetrical and with "rational" expression of staircase
fenestration, 5 and 6 storeys plus 2 tiers of dormered attics. Close set
window ranges and corner "staircase towers". Recessed entrance bays to
Millbank and to Little College Street with enriched stone doorcases. Stone
dressed sash and mullioned-transomed casements with scrolled pediments on
1st floor. The central range of windows to each front through 1st to 2nd
floors are prominently articulated by scrolled buttresses with Plateresque
pinnacles. Bowed oriels to outer bays. Arcaded loggias to top floor.
Shaped gables in parapet and pyramidal roofed corner towers.