Nag's Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1974. Public house, shop. 8 related planning applications.
Nag's Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- south-rafter-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1974
- Type
- Public house, shop
- Address
- Nag's Head Public House, 10 and 10a, James Street Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2E 8BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51297, -0.12365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nag's Head Public House is a corner public house and shop located on James Street in the City of Westminster, built around 1900 by architect P.E. Pilditch. The building is constructed of red brick with terracotta dressings and features a slate roof in the Jacobethan style, highlighted by a corner tourelle. It stands three storeys tall with a half dormer attic and has three windows on the main facade, with the tourelle and a four-window return facing Floral Street.
The ground floor includes an open shop front at number 10A and a public house entrance at the corner, which is complemented by a secondary entrance at the end of the Floral Street front. This area is articulated by polished granite pilasters that support an entablature. The upper floors feature three-light mullioned sash windows with terracotta dressings, while the tourelle is adorned with mullioned and transomed windows, also with terracotta details and elaborate ornamentation on the aprons. A terracotta entablature runs over the first floor and wraps around the tourelle. Short sections of parapet connect the pedimented half dormers, with the tourelle rising higher, topped with an ogee-capped dome.
Local climate
Nag's Head Public 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 8 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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