Artillery House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1981. Office block. 46 related planning applications.
Artillery House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-glass-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1981
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Artillery House, 11-19, Artillery Row Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 1RH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 295 791
- Coordinates
- 51.49686, -0.13535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Artillery House is an office block dating from 1928, designed by Maurice Webb. It was constructed with a steel frame and faced in cream faience, exhibiting a modernistic style influenced by "Hollywood Egyptian" aesthetics. The building is seven storeys high, with an attic, and seven bays wide. The design features five bays of four windows each, flanked by stair towers of one window. Office entrances are located within the front of the flanking towers, each featuring semicircular arched doorways. The ground floor currently accommodates five mid-20th century shop fronts. Above the doorways are ceramic miniature howitzers, referencing the building's name, with strip windows illuminating the stairs above. The five central bays have recessed, metal-framed casement windows positioned between tapered, streamlined buttresses. A projecting cornice is supported by paired brackets, and the attic is set back. The building has seen very few alterations since its construction.
Local climate
Artillery 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 46 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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