Running Horse Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1975. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
Running Horse Public House
- WRENN ID
- moated-pewter-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1975
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Running Horse Public House, 50, Davies Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 5JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 809
- Coordinates
- 51.5132, -0.14842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Running Horse Public House, built between 1839 and 1840 by builder Joshua Higgs, is a group of three houses located in the City of Westminster. The buildings are stuccoed with slate roofs and consist of four storeys and a basement. The pub, No 50, features a three-window front and a four-window return. The first-floor windows are adorned with cornices on consoles, and the central window has a pediment above it. There is a dentilled main cornice and an original course over the second floor, along with a parapet that has a stuccoed blocking course and a scrolled upstand. Nos 52 and 54 also have cornices on consoles for their first-floor windows, complemented by early 19th-century cast iron balconettes. The original main cornice is modillioned and dentilled above the second floor. No 52 includes a porch supported by Greek Doric columns. All upper floor windows retain their glazing bar sashes, and there are cast iron area railings dating from around 1840.
Local climate
Running Horse 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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