Dorland House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. Office block. 25 related planning applications.
Dorland House
- WRENN ID
- old-ashlar-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Dorland House, 14-22, Lower Regent Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 4PH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50894, -0.13356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorland House is an office block with shops, built between 1924 and 1928 by J.J. Joass. It features a Portland stone-clad exterior, a steel frame, and a slate roof, showcasing a Beaux Arts influenced style that reflects the classicism of the rebuilt Regent Street. The building stands six storeys tall, including a podium ground floor with a mezzanine and two tiers of attics in a mansard roof.
The front facade is eight windows wide, with three-window wings and an eight-window return to Carlton Street. Although the ground floor office entrance and shop windows have been altered, the original design includes dividing pilasters and engaged Doric columns in the wings that rise through the mezzanine to support a continuous entablature. This entablature features a cast iron balcony adorned with stone urns on pedestals at the center of the second floor. The second floor has rusticated ashlar facing, and the third floor includes recessed metal casements set in architraves, topped with cornices.
A deep entablature with a bracketed cornice and a balustraded parapet, which is surmounted by urns, completes the upper part of the building. The mansard roof is detailed with lead dressings on the dormers and triumphal ornaments at the corners of the wings.
Local climate
Dorland 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 — 25 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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