20, Cockspur Street SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1973. Commercial office. 3 related planning applications.
20, Cockspur Street SW1
- WRENN ID
- lone-sentry-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1973
- Type
- Commercial office
- Address
- 20, Cockspur Street SW1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 5BL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50752, -0.13029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Cockspur Street is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1901 by William Woodward for the International Sleeping Car and European Express Company (Wagons Lit). This building, designed in the late Franco-Flemish Gothic style, features Portland stone and a polished red granite ground floor, topped with a slate roof.
It stands as a corner block of four storeys with attics, measuring five windows wide, with a narrower three-window return on the east elevation. The ground floor includes a central doorway flanked by display windows that have octagonal shafted jambs and quadrant cornered lintels. Above, ornate oriel windows with leaded lights adorn the upper floors. The parapet is accentuated with finialed pinnacles, and the steep roof is punctuated by gabled dormers.
To the left, an angle tourelle with a pepper-box roof contributes to the symmetrical tourelle composition of the east elevation. This side features a granite-faced shop front and three-light mullioned and transomed windows on the first and second floors, framed by a pointed arch. Above, three attic windows are set within an ornate gable end, with the central window flanked by pinnacles. The building's prominent corner location enhances its architectural significance.
Local climate
20, Cockspur Street SW1 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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