1-72, BURLINGTON ARCADE W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Shopping arcade. 10 related planning applications.
1-72, BURLINGTON ARCADE W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- brooding-marble-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Shopping arcade
- Address
- 1-72, BURLINGTON ARCADE W1 (See details for further address information), 51, Piccadilly, City of Westminster, W1J 0PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50914, -0.14028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burlington Arcade is a shopping arcade built between 1818 and 1819 by Samuel Ware. The Piccadilly elevation features a first-floor loggia added by Beresford Pike in 1911, and the original triple arched entrance was altered by Pike in 1931. The Burlington Gardens elevation was replaced in 1937. The arcade's roof is supported by arches that create a tent-like ceiling with glazed roof-lights. The arches divide the arcade into bays of two shops, which have projecting and recessed display windows with entablatures and tripartite sashed lights on the first floor. On Piccadilly, Pike added a stone-faced first-floor arcaded loggia with a parapet and rebuilt the large camber arched entrance in an Edwardian-Baroque style in 1931. The original elevation by Ware on Burlington Gardens was replaced by a plain Portland stone-faced parapeted front, featuring Lord Chesham's coat of arms, above a camber arched opening on low pylons, designed by E. Bates and W. G. Sinning. The arcade was badly damaged in 1940 but was restored in 1954.
Local climate
1-72, BURLINGTON ARCADE W1 (See details for further address information) 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 — 10 applications
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