Cavell House; National Wminster Bank London, England
Listed Building Data
Cavell House; National Wminster Bank has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1066286
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 8 June 1982
- Name
- CAVELL HOUSE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
- Location
- CAVELL HOUSE, 2A, CHARING CROSS ROAD WC2NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, ST MARTIN'S PLACE WC2
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30041 80641
- Easting
- 530041.0000
- Northing
- 180641.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARING CROSS ROAD, WC2 72/115 (east side)
8.6.82 No 2A - Cavell House (including No 10 St Martin's Place - National Westminster Bank)
GV II
Former Westminster City Council Offices and bank on St Martin's Place. 1890 by Robert Walker, enlarged 1902 by A W Murray. Portland stone faced, slate roof. Plan follows curve of street with free classical facade for offices and rather more Baroque detail for the 1902 bank extension. 3 storeys and attic. 19 windows wide in the rhythm 5:1:7:1:5 with canted corner to St Martin's Lane and 4-window return. Segmental arched entrance to offices in northern single bay flanked by pilasters with Westminster City arms over arch and balcony above. Bowed out corner entrance to bank with foliage carved lunette. The plate glass ground floor windows of the offices are articulated by rusticated pilasters whilst the 5 ground floor bays of the bank are rusticated with semi-circular arched, mask keystoned windows. Architraved windows to upper floors those on 1st floor eared with pediments over. The shallow break of the central 7-window section articulated through 1st and 2nd floors by Corinthian pilasters; the single bays flanked by rusticated pilasters with pediments breaking the balustraded parapet in line with them. Entablatures above ground and 2nd floors. Included for group interest on prominent corner site.
Survey of London; Vol XX.
Listing NGR: TQ3004180641
