Abbey Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1973. Office and chambers. 7 related planning applications.
Abbey Buildings
- WRENN ID
- seventh-latch-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1973
- Type
- Office and chambers
- Address
- Abbey Buildings, 8, Storey's Gate Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 3AT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50059, -0.13011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Buildings is an office and chambers building constructed around 1860-1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is designed in the Flemish Renaissance style and features red brick with a painted ground floor and a slate roof. The building has four storeys and an attic, topped with a pediment gable. It is three windows wide, with the ground floor showcasing three segmental arched openings; the outer openings contain doorways that are adorned with scrolled pediments on brackets. The upper floors have recessed sash windows, each flanked by short pilasters. The pediment gable is divided into three sections, with attic windows that are flanked by terracotta panels.
Local climate
Abbey Buildings 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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