Westminster Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1989. Office block. 14 related planning applications.
Westminster Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-wicket-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green MP: Florence Eshalomi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1989
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Westminster Bridge House, 121, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 795
- Coordinates
- 51.49927, -0.11365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westminster Bridge House is a former office block for the London Necropolis Company Terminus, built in 1900. The building was designed by Cyril B Tubbs, the general manager of the Necropolis Company, and Mr Andrews, an engineer for the London and South-West Railway. It features a brick construction with a granite base on the street facade, terracotta detailing, and a slate roof. The structure has four storeys and a fifth level in the mansard roof, with a mezzanine added in the second half of the 20th century.
The ground floor showcases a large segmental arch made of grey granite, which has moulded chamfering and an intricately carved keystone. Above the arch is a fascia that is said to be inscribed with 'LONDON NECROPOLIS'. The first, second, and third floors are adorned with rusticated brickwork. The central windows on the first and second floors are framed by decorative elements; on the first floor, there are four engaged columns and an entablature made of terracotta, while the second floor features two pairs of square columns made of brickwork with terracotta quoins, each supporting a 'stilted' pediment decorated with a cartouche and Art Nouveau fronds. The third floor is crowned by a large semicircular pediment, richly detailed in terracotta, which spans the entire width of the facade. A semicircular ornamental panel in the tympanum displays the date '1900'.
Inside, original architraves remain around the doors and windows on the first and second floors. This building originally served as the street frontage for the London Necropolis Company's Terminus, but other buildings that extended to the south and west as far as Newnham Terrace were demolished in the 1940s.
Local climate
Westminster Bridge 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 — 14 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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