Charles H Fox Limited and Robert White and Sons Harper and Row Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Office. 7 related planning applications.
Charles H Fox Limited and Robert White and Sons Harper and Row Limited
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Charles H Fox Limited and Robert White and Sons Harper and Row Limited, 28, Tavistock Street Wc2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 808
- Coordinates
- 51.5118, -0.12065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as Charles H Fox Limited and Robert White and Sons, along with Harper and Row Limited, is a Grade II listed corner block of offices constructed around 1857 by G. F. Fry for the Strand District Board of Works. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, designed in the Italianate style. The building stands three storeys tall with cellars and is four windows wide, including a single window bowed corner and a two-window return to Burleigh Street.
The ground floor is rusticated, with a corner entrance at No. 28 that is approached by a flight of steps. This entrance consists of an archivolt arched doorway flanked by engaged columns, supporting an entablature with an enriched panel that displays the title of the Strand Board. To the left, the entrance to No. 26 features another archivolt arched doorway with a console bracketed pediment and a key mask. The ground floor windows have been altered and feature mask keystones.
The first floor has triplicate windows with cornices, while the second floor showcases semicircular arched windows adorned with fruit-enriched pendants on consoles that support pediments above, along with enriched aprons. The south bay of the Burleigh Street return includes Venetian-type windows. Both floors are articulated by pilaster orders, with Ionic columns above Doric ones, and the building is crowned with an entablature and blocking course. It occupies a prominent corner site.
Local climate
Charles H Fox Limited and Robert White and Sons Harper and Row Limited 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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