Faith House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Office, institute. 5 related planning applications.
Faith House
- WRENN ID
- wild-tallow-azure
- 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, institute
- Address
- Faith House, 7, Tufton Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49757, -0.12842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Faith House is an office building and institute located on Tufton Street in the City of Westminster. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1907 and originally built as the St. John's Institute. The structure features dark brown brick with stone dressings and a pantile roof, showcasing a clever Georgian-style palazzo design.
The building is two stories high with a dormered attic and is five windows wide. On the ground floor, there are three large stone archivolt arched openings with flanking panelled piers; the outer openings serve as doorways while the central one functions as a window. The piano nobile has tall recessed glazing bar sashes set within stone architraves that include cornices. Additional architectural details include a stone plinth, a brick and stone first-floor plat band, a sill band, and a prominent moulded eaves cornice. The eaves also feature large glazing bar sashed dormers, with the central dormer being pedimented. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Faith 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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