1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street) is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A C20 Office building.
1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street)
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corbel-russet
- 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
- Office building
- Address
- 1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street), Millbank Sw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49727, -0.12607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1 and 2 Millbank, also known as The Church Commissioners, along with No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street, and Nos 5 and 7 Little College Street, is a large office building constructed in 1903 by W.D. Caröe. The building is made of red brick and features elaborate Portland stone dressings and slate roofs. It showcases an eclectic yet sophisticated Free Style northern Renaissance design, incorporating Renaissance Plateresque motifs. The structure is slightly asymmetrical and exhibits a "rational" expression of staircase fenestration, rising five and six storeys with two tiers of dormered attics.
The design includes closely set window ranges and corner staircase towers. There are recessed entrance bays on both Millbank and Little College Street, each adorned with enriched stone doorcases. The stone-dressed sash windows and mullioned-transomed casements feature scrolled pediments on the first floor. The central range of windows from the first to the second floors is prominently highlighted by scrolled buttresses topped with Plateresque pinnacles. The outer bays have bowed oriels, and the top floor is enhanced by arcaded loggias. The building also features shaped gables in the parapet and pyramidal-roofed corner towers.
Local climate
1 and 2 Millbank, The Church Commissioners (including No 3 Great College Street, No 2 Great Peter Street and Nos 5 and 7 Little College 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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