Unilever House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Office building. 2 related planning applications.

Unilever House

WRENN ID
waiting-obsidian-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
City of London
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1977
Type
Office building
Address
Unilever House, Victoria Embankment Ec4, City and County of the City of London, EC4Y 0DY
OS grid reference
TQ 316 808
Coordinates
51.51158, -0.10496
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Unilever House is a building constructed between 1930 and 1932 by J Lomax Simpson in collaboration with Burnet, Tait and Partners. It features a steel frame construction faced with Portland stone and is designed in a "stripped classical" style. The building has eight storeys, and its facade along Victoria Embankment follows the curve of the road. The rusticated ground floor of the main block projects forward but curves inward to a central arched entrance, which is flanked by two smaller square-headed doorways and decorative lamp standards. Free-standing unfluted Ionic columns extend through the fourth to sixth floors, and the windows are metal-framed. The seventh storey, which is visible from above, appears as a parapet now pierced by windows above a strongly-marked cornice. The entrances flanking the main block support sculptural groups created by Sir William Reid Dick.

Local climate

Unilever House 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Drinking Fountain on East Side of Road at North End of Bridge Grade II 66 m
  2. K2 Telephone Kiosk Grade II 67 m
  3. Main block of City of London School (Main front block only) Grade II 71 m
  4. Statue of Queen Victoria at Approach to Blackfriars Bridge Grade II 74 m
  5. Blackfriars House Grade II 78 m
  6. The Black Friar Public House Grade II* 104 m
  7. Sion College and Attached Railings Grade II 110 m
  8. Former Guildhall School of Music Grade II 120 m
  9. 9, Carmelite Street EC4 Grade II 125 m
  10. Embankment Wall with Cast Iron Lamp Standards Grade II 134 m