Whitehall House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WHITEHALL SW1 83/56 (East side) 5.2.70 Whitehall House (Nos 41 and 43) GV II Offices and chambers. 1904 by Treadwell and Martin. Stone faced, slate.

Distinctive Free Style Jacobethan - late Gothic typical of the partnership, with strong vertical emphasis, in a manner developing the lead given by Wilson and Townsend. 6 storeys and attic. 3 windows wide. Altered shop front to ground floor with 4-centred arched doorway to left. 3-storeyed mullioned-transomed oriel with leaded casements to centre,above which is a large tripartite mullioned window, with traceried arches to side lights, under deeply moulded segmental arch beneath eaves. The flanking bays, with cross-mullioned leaded windows, are defined by prominent, sharply profiled mullion-piers rising as finials above the twuast, tower-like, stages which have bowed, pierced work, corbelled balconettes on 2 sides and pyramidal roofs. The steep main roof has dormer and crowning,octagonal,louvred lantern with coppered spirelet and weathervane.

Listing NGR: TQ3009580273

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0864 IOE Records taken by Sarah Griffiths; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Miss Sarah Griffiths. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project