19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Office chambers, bank.
19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- mired-passage-larch
- 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 chambers, bank
- Address
- 19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2 (See details for further address information), 5, Broad Court Wc2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51373, -0.12257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 19 and 20 Bow Street is an office building and bank constructed in 1897 by R.S. Wornum. The ground floor is made of Portland stone, while the upper levels are dressed in red brick, topped with a slate roof. This building showcases an asymmetrical Queen Anne style with notable Arts and Crafts details. It stands two to three storeys high with an attic.
The Bow Street facade features three windows, a three-window gable end return, and a three-window wing that connects to a corner pavilion-tower on the right. There are doorways on the left side of the Bow Street front and on the gable end return, both framed with architraves that rise to points below cornices, with an oculus above the Bow Street doorway. The ground floor has two large semicircular arched windows that are recessed and adorned with keystones, divided into three lights by wooden pilasters and a transom. The upper floors have flush framed segmental arched glazing bar sash windows, and a bracketed stone cornice runs along the top.
Barrel roofed dormers are present, and the cornice continues across the gable end, where the fenestration is similar to that of the ground and upper floors. Additionally, there is a decorative "Baroque" window framed by blocked columns in the shaped gable, along with a stone cartouche at the corner on the first floor. The link wing is two storeys tall, featuring the same sash windows on the first floor, a parapet with coping, and a dormered mansard roof. The right corner pavilion is canted, displaying two windows facing Broad Court and one at the corner, and it culminates at attic level in an octagonal tower topped with an ogee lead cupola and finial.
Local climate
19 AND 20, BOW STREET WC2 (See details for further address information) 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Southernmost K2 Telephone Kiosk in Group to North of Bow Street Magistrates Court
- Central K2 Telephone Kiosk in Group to North of Bow Street Magistrates Court
- Northernmost K2 Telephone Kiosk in Group to North of Bow Street Magistrates Court
- 7 and 8, Bow Street WC2
- Former Bow Street Magistrates Court and Police Station
- 2 Bollards Either Side of Junction with Floral Street
- The Sun Tavern Public House
- 52, Floral Street WC2
- 60 and 61, Long Acre
- 46 and 47, Floral Street WC2