Wharfside Shelter and Store to Rear of Travis Perkins Builders Merchants is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1990. A C19 Shelter and store.

Wharfside Shelter and Store to Rear of Travis Perkins Builders Merchants

WRENN ID
old-jamb-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1990
Type
Shelter and store
Address
Wharfside Shelter and Store to Rear of Travis Perkins Builders Merchants, 22, Praed Street, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 270 815
Coordinates
51.51867, -0.17059
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wharf-side Shelter and Store, located at the rear of Travis Perkins Builders Merchants on Praed Street, dates from around 1840. The building features a brick ground floor and a predominantly timber first floor. It has a large hipped roof, which is covered with slate and supports an internal king-strut tie-beam truss, complete with twin angle struts and strutted rafters. Externally, the roof is supported by queen post type construction, with principal rafters that extend through the purlins, and a large timber column with radiating rafters at the hip. Some of the external timbers are chamfered and shaped. The ground floor includes a 20th-century entrance, while the first floor has timber access doors leading to the yard and canal. The interiors are plain, featuring brick and timber, with the first floor showcasing a row of original shaped pegs. This building is a significant and rare example of a once-common canalside feature.

Local climate

Wharfside Shelter and Store to Rear of Travis Perkins Builders Merchants sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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