7, Hanover Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 2001. Shop, showroom, workshop. 2 related planning applications.
7, Hanover Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-dormer-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 2001
- Type
- Shop, showroom, workshop
- Address
- 7, Hanover Street, City of Westminster, W1B 2EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51396, -0.14252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
7 Hanover Street is a shop, showroom, and workshop/office building designed by Treadwell and Martin in 1907, as indicated by the inscription on the first floor. The structure is made of rendered brick with a roof concealed behind lead flashings. It stands five storeys tall with a basement and is one bay wide, topped by a broad broken pediment featuring keystones above a Diocletian window. A projecting cornice is located below, while the second and third floors present a unified design that includes an oriel window set between Corinthian pilasters. The area between the two windows is adorned with swags of fruit and putti, with the inscription "Treadwell and Martin 1907" positioned to the right.
The first floor showroom features a segmental arched timber window, with a timber window in the shopfront below and a side entrance door. The panelling from the side entrance is echoed internally in the staircase hall, where a timber stair with thick square newels ascends from the ground to the fifth floor. Some cornices remain in the principal rooms.
Henry John Treadwell and Leonard Martin were notable designers of offices and public houses in London around 1900. Alastair Service describes their work as having "inventive brilliance" derived from the Gothic style, blended with other influences and marked by originality. This building exemplifies their classical approach and showcases their talent for designing narrow, tall structures, particularly in the garment district near Oxford Circus. It represents a successful effort to introduce a fresh, light-hearted architectural style to central London, suitable for the rapidly growing retail industry, and is a complete example of the distinctive work produced by one of the leading commercial practices of the time.
Local climate
7, Hanover Street 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 — 2 applications
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