The Fine Art Society is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Gallery. 4 related planning applications.
The Fine Art Society
- WRENN ID
- hidden-gallery-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Gallery
- Address
- The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 2JT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51129, -0.14378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fine Art Society is a gallery located at 148 New Bond Street in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1876 by architect E W Godwin and is designed in a Transitional Gothic - Free style using Portland stone. The building has a narrow frontage and stands five storeys tall, topped with a gable. The ground floor features deeply recessed gallery windows and a doorway framed by columns in antis. The first floor is also recessed and includes a segmental arched window, with sculpted figures of two children holding a shield on the left side.
Inside, it is one of the few late 19th-century purpose-designed galleries that has survived, retaining its top light rear exhibition space along with a balustraded well leading down to the basement showroom.
Local climate
The Fine Art Society 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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