233 Shaftesbury Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1989. Office block. 8 related planning applications.
233 Shaftesbury Avenue
- WRENN ID
- nether-spire-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1989
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- 233 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8EE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51629, -0.12671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 233 Shaftesbury Avenue is a speculative office block built between 1927 and 1929 by the architectural firm Hobden & Porri, with carved details possibly by Henry Poole. The building features a steel frame faced in Portland stone and is designed in a Neo Egyptian style.
It stands six storeys tall and has a six-bay range. The bay on the right includes vertically set slit lights grouped in threes, leading to a full-height stairwell. Above the stairwell, there is a carved Pharaoh's head situated above a fluted coved cornice, with a winged disc, a symbol of the god Horus, positioned over a square-headed doorway that has a moulded architrave. To the left, the entrance front consists of three bays, featuring columns with cushion capitals set in a slightly projecting portico. This portico also showcases a winged disc feature within a coved palm-leaf cornice, and there is a square-headed glazed entrance.
The upper floors are adorned with metal framed windows and metal spandrel panels, which include palm-leaf and Classical detailing. These elements are recessed between a giant order of piers that extend to flattened palm-leaf capitals, beneath a plain frieze featuring a central winged disc. The building is topped with an attic storey that has square-headed windows and a boldly projecting cornice with palm-leaf carving.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
233 Shaftesbury Avenue sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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