The Church Commissioners London, England
Listed Building Data
The Church Commissioners 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1267603
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 5 February 1970
- Name
- THE CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
- Location
- 2, GREAT PETER STREET SW13, GREAT COLLEGE STREET SW15 AND 7, LITTLE COLLEGE STREET SW1THE CHURCH COMMISSIONERS, MILLBANK SW1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30176 79257
- Easting
- 530175.9730
- Northing
- 179256.5140
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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.
Listing NGR: TQ3016579262
