Former Numbers 14 and 15 (Now Part of Number 16) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1995. Office.

Former Numbers 14 and 15 (Now Part of Number 16)

WRENN ID
stark-moulding-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 January 1995
Type
Office
Address
Former Numbers 14 and 15 (Now Part of Number 16), Bell Yard, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 311 812
Coordinates
51.51455, -0.11188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Former numbers 14 and 15, now part of number 16, are offices built around 1878, likely designed by William Elsdon. The building features a stone facade on a brick structure, with a rectangular plan that is three bays wide and two rooms deep, rising five storeys beneath a slate roof.

The ground floor has a complete timber shop front with two lights on either side of a central modern door, which now serves as number 16 and provides access to adjacent premises. The shop front includes iron lozenge panes. On the first floor, there is a single central window set under a pediment, while the flanking windows are tripartite, separated by iron columns that have enriched foliate capitals on stone bases. This window arrangement is repeated on the second floor, but with console brackets instead of an order. The third floor features simpler, unadorned windows beneath a projecting eaves cornice, and the attic storey has a simpler cornice above.

Inside, the building retains an original lift in an iron cage located at the center of the stairwell. The ground floor also showcases egg and dart cornices in the principal spaces and the lift lobby.

Local climate

Former Numbers 14 and 15 (Now Part of Number 16) 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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