1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Offices. 1 related planning application.
1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall
- WRENN ID
- ghost-hearth-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- 1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall, 64 and 64a, Pall Mall Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 5HZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 293 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50544, -0.13792
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as 1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall, is a corner block of offices designed in 1882 by R. Norman Shaw for the Alliance Insurance Company. It features red brick construction with extensive stone dressings, showcasing rich color variations and decorative molded brick panels. The architectural style is "Queen Anne," influenced by Flemish Renaissance and French designs.
The structure consists of four tall storeys, a basement, two storeyed attics in gables, and a five-storey corner turret. It has six windows facing St. James's Street, with the three on the left set in a slightly advanced gabled break. The ground floor is banded in stone and includes two large semicircular shop windows flanking an enriched doorway with an entablature. The window arches are deep and molded, with alternating stone and cut brick voussoirs.
The upper floors feature mullion-transom windows, with the first floor having tall windows with two transoms and enriched heads and capitals carved on the dividing piers. There are figured brick and stone friezes and panels, along with sill bands and cornices. The gable is shaped with scrolled kneelers and capped with a pediment. The corner turret, which is corbelled out from the ground floor, has mannerist pediments above the windows and a finialed roof.
The return to Pall Mall includes two similar large shop windows and matching fenestration and details across five bays above, also topped with a gable. First-floor cast iron balconies rest on stone corbelling on both fronts, and there are lofty stone-dressed stacks. This building is noted for its influential commercial design.
Local climate
1 and 2 St James's Street, including 64 Pall Mall 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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