Northcliffe House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. Printing office. 9 related planning applications.
Northcliffe House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-cobble-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Printing office
- Address
- Northcliffe House, Whitefriars, City and County of the City of London, EC4Y 0AY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51281, -0.10725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Northcliffe House is a newspaper printing office built between 1925 and 1926, designed by Ellis and Clarke. It is a stone-clad steel framed structure with a roof that is not visible. The building has four storeys plus an attic storey, featuring seven bays on Tudor Street and six bays on Whitefriars Street. The corner entrance is square-headed and has a prominent keystone. The first, second, and third floors are unified by giant order Ionic pilasters, which have lion head masks on their capitals. The façade is almost fully glazed between the first and second floors, with long three-light windows linked by continuous mullions. The metal glazing bars create a margin glazing pattern, subdivided into very small panes. Above the third floor, there is a fluted coved cornice in a neo-Egyptian style, and the attic storey is recessed. A short polygonal corner tower adds to the design. Northcliffe House was built for Associated Newspapers (Northcliffe/Rothermere) and was the first British newspaper printing office to feature reel feed from beneath the printing presses.
Local climate
Northcliffe 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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