Ship and Shovel Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Ship and Shovel Public House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-stronghold-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Ship and Shovel Public House, 2 and 3, Craven Passage Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2N 5PH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50767, -0.12473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ship and Shovel public house originally comprised a pair of terrace houses, built around 1731-32. It was refaced in the late 18th century and given a late 19th-century public house front. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with a slate roof and has three storeys and a dormered mansard. It is five windows wide, with three windows on the left (No. 2) and two on the right (No. 3). The ground floor has a wooden public house frontage incorporating panelled and glazed doors and bar windows, with Corinthian pilasters supporting an entablature-fascia. Upper floors feature recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set within flat arches and surrounded by stucco voussoirs. A parapet with coping sits atop the building. The pub's interior retains good late 19th-century mahogany bar fittings and some engraved glass. Originally, the building was part of the Craven family's 18th-century development of their Brewhouse property, and is comparable to buildings in Craven Street.
Local climate
Ship and Shovel Public 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- 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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