Walmer House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Walmer House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-entrance-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Walmer House, 136, Seymour Place W1, City of Westminster, W1H 1NT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 275 817
- Coordinates
- 51.52047, -0.16356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walmer House is a former public house built in 1873. It features cream stock brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, displaying a freely handled Italianate style. The building stands three storeys high with a dormered mansard roof and is two windows wide, with a splayed corner and a two-window return.
On the ground floor, there are two windows flanking a doorway that is set in segmental arcading, which is stilted above pilasters adorned with foliate caps. These pilasters also support ornamental spandrels, a fascia, and an enriched cornice. The narrow entrance to the corner splay is similarly detailed, as are the ground floor windows of the return.
The upper floors feature recessed sashes within enriched stone surrounds and heads. A continuous deep band course at the second floor level includes a carved name panel inscribed "Walmer Castle" on the splayed corner. The building is topped with a bracketed crowning cornice and a blocking course, with a chimney stack positioned over the corner splay, its base inscribed with the date.
Local climate
Walmer House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
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