Millbank

Millbank Conservation Area is located in the south of the City of Westminster.

For most of the 19th century the river frontage to Millbank was dominated by the Millbank Penitentiary, the first national prison, which was built according to Jeremy Bentham's 'panopticon principle'. Though the site of the prison was redeveloped after 1890, the conservation area boundaries today roughly follow those of the prison site.

The conservation area is formed of four distinct character areas: the late 19th and early 20th century cultural and military complex including the Tate Gallery and former Royal Army Medical College. To the northwest is the red brick Millbank Estate, one of London's earliest council estates. To the east, centred around Ponsonby Terrace, are mid 19th century terraced houses, which formed an early part of Thomas Cubitt's Pimlico development. To the southeast is the River Thames frontage and the Embankment.

The Millbank Conservation Area was designated in 1969 and extended in 1990.