Whitehall House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Offices. 1 related planning application.
Whitehall House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cellar-bramble
- 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
- Offices
- Address
- Whitehall House, 41 and 43, Whitehall Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 2BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50642, -0.12686
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehall House, located at Nos 41 and 43, is a Grade II listed building in the City of Westminster, constructed in 1904 by Treadwell and Martin. This office and chamber building features a stone façade and a slate roof, showcasing a distinctive Free Style Jacobethan design with late Gothic elements, characterized by a strong vertical emphasis that reflects the influence of Wilson and Townsend.
The building stands six storeys tall with an attic and is three windows wide. The ground floor has an altered shop front with a four-centred arched doorway to the left. The central section boasts a three-storeyed oriel window with mullions and transoms, featuring leaded casements. Above this, there is a large tripartite mullioned window with traceried arches on the side lights, all set beneath a deeply moulded segmental arch at the eaves.
The flanking bays are defined by prominent, sharply profiled mullion-piers that rise as finials above two tower-like stages. These stages have bowed, pierced work and corbelled balconettes on two sides, topped with pyramidal roofs. The steep main roof includes dormers and a crowning octagonal louvred lantern with a copper spirelet and weathervane.
Local climate
Whitehall House 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
- Old Shades Public House
- 1, Great Scotland Yard SW1
- 25, Whitehall SW1
- Pair of K6 Telephone kiosks
- Harrington House
- Whitehall Theatre
- Government Offices, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food Government Offices, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food West Block
- 3, Whitehall SW1
- Northumberland House (Victoria Buildings)
- Trafalgar Buildings