120, Pall Mall SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Office. 9 related planning applications.
120, Pall Mall SW1
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- Address
- 120, Pall Mall SW1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50738, -0.13129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 120 Pall Mall is a showroom and office building designed in 1929 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is constructed with load-bearing Portland stone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building showcases a bold and subtly composed free neo-classical style. It has a two-storey podium for the showroom, with five floors of offices above, and is three windows wide.
The ground floor is characterized by a large, off-centre semicircular archway leading into the showroom, which is deeply recessed in the facade. To the left of the archway is a pedimented doorway with a mezzanine window above. The second-floor windows, or rather second mezzanine windows, are also deeply recessed and divided by piers that support a two-storey giant "Delhi" order. This order features engaged columns in the central broader bay, with antae flanking it. The metal casement windows on the third floor are recessed and square-headed, with panelled aprons.
Above the fourth floor, there is a giant order entablature, followed by a first attic storey that is surmounted by a parapet with three balustraded panels. The second recessed attic storey has a central emphasis and is crowned by a full-width pediment.
Local climate
120, Pall Mall SW1 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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