Chesham House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. Block of offices and shops. 4 related planning applications.
Chesham House
- WRENN ID
- empty-loggia-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- Block of offices and shops
- Address
- Chesham House, Warwick Street W1, City of Westminster, W1B 5SX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51147, -0.13876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chesham House is a block of offices and shops built between 1923 and 1925 by H. Tanner. It features a Portland stone facade and a slate roof, designed in the Neo-Classical Beaux Arts style. The building stands five storeys high with attics and has nine major bays. The ground floor has a podium with pilasters that support an entablature, while mid-20th century shop fronts have been inserted. The upper floors are distinguished by a giant order, with the central and end bays featuring Corinthian columns in antis and pilasters in between. These frame bays containing three metal casement windows, with the windows on the first and second floors set in architraved recesses. Above these, on the third floor, there are console-bracketed pediments. The giant order continues to the fourth floor, which is treated as a frieze below the entablature, with the windows of the central and end bays flanked by carved panels of triumphal ornament. The attic storey is topped with a dentil cornice.
Local climate
Chesham House 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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