45 and 46, Chandos Place WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Office premises.
45 and 46, Chandos Place WC2
- WRENN ID
- grey-string-starling
- 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
- Office premises
- Address
- 45 and 46, Chandos Place WC2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50966, -0.12601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 45 and 46 Chandos Place are terraced office buildings constructed around 1904, possibly designed by Frank Matcham as part of the Coliseum theatre development in St. Martin's Lane. The buildings are made of painted terracotta and feature a slate roof in an eclectic Flemish Renaissance style. They rise four storeys and are three windows wide, with coupled windows on either side of a central single window bay.
The ground floor is open as a passageway, flanked by pilasters that support the spring of a depressed arch, all faced with granite. The upper floors have mullioned-transomed casements with varied patterns of glazing bars in the top lights, framed by half octagonal shafts with capitals on each storey, and ornate strapwork aprons. The windows on the second floor are segmental arched, while those on the first and third floors are flat arched, featuring shallow ogee moulding on the lintels. These are flanked by lesenes that rise into a shaped gable with strapwork paneling and a pediment capping.
Local climate
45 and 46, Chandos Place WC2 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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