Whitbread's Brewery Building, Next to the King's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1990. Brewery building. 10 related planning applications.
Whitbread's Brewery Building, Next to the King's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-flue-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1990
- Type
- Brewery building
- Address
- Whitbread's Brewery Building, Next to the King's Head Public House, Whitecross Street, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 324 819
- Coordinates
- 51.52082, -0.09222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a brewery building dated 1904, located next to the King's Head public house. Constructed of red brick and granite with stone dressings, it has a lead roof. The building is five storeys high with a five-window front. The ground floor features a granite base with a segmental-arched opening and four flat-arched windows, topped by a cornice. The first and second floors are framed by six giant Doric pilasters, which support a bracketed dentil cornice with a panelled frieze. The windows on the first floor were originally flat-arched; those on the second floor originally round-arched, with moulded stucco impost blocks and archivolts. An additional scrolled bracket is present beneath the impost block on the right-hand bay of the second floor, though three of the second-floor windows to the left are now flat-arched. The attic storey has flat-arched windows recessed under a cornice with engaged Doric antae. A late 20th-century, lead-covered dormer runs the length of the roof between end gables. A brewery chimney is situated to the south, featuring a stone band, panelled frieze, and bracketed cornice.
Local climate
Whitbread's Brewery Building, Next to the King's Head Public 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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