Steps and Parapets with Lamps at West End is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Steps and parapets.

Steps and Parapets with Lamps at West End

WRENN ID
blind-panel-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Steps and parapets
Address
Steps and Parapets with Lamps at West End, King Charles Street Sw1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 299 798
Coordinates
51.5023, -0.12926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The steps and parapets with lamps at the west end of King Charles Street in the City of Westminster were built around 1873. They are part of the Foreign Office designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, although their design may be attributed to Mathew Digby Wyatt due to their connection with St James's Park. The structure features a broad flight of steps made of York stone, leading down to the park, with a landing and flanking parapets made of Portland stone. The parapets are adorned with highly ornate pierced scrollwork Italianate carvings beneath the coping, and they are topped with ornamental wrought iron lamps.

Local climate

Steps and Parapets with Lamps at West End 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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