Warwick House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Georgian Town house. 17 related planning applications.

Warwick House

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
5 February 1970
Type
Town house
Period
Georgian
Address
Warwick House, Stable Yard Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1BD
OS grid reference
TQ 292 799
Coordinates
51.50409, -0.13972
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Warwick House is a large town house built between 1770 and 1771 by Sir William Chambers, originally known as Errington House. While it retains some of Chambers' fine interior features, the house has undergone alterations, particularly in the early 19th century. In 1853, a canted bay was added to the south side, and the exterior was remodeled again in 1860, incorporating Renaissance details into the elevations that reflect an early 19th-century character.

The building stands four storeys high with a mansard roof that includes two tiers of dormers. The former entrance front facing Green Park is four windows wide, while the south side, which faces Stable Yard, has a broad, nearly blind return from the Park front, a canted bay, and a recessed wing with three closely set windows. The east side features three windows and a blind bay.

A channelled stucco porch projects to the east, featuring an Ionic columned doorway with a pediment. The Park front has recessed glazing bar sashes set in shallow architraves, with semicircular arched windows on the ground and first floors. A broad panelled quoin pilaster with fleur-de-lis detail is located to the right, topped by a deep main entablature over the second floor and a secondary cornice at the attic storey. The upper tier of dormers in the mansard is treated as oeil de beouf.

The immediate south return is blind except for a small "Renaissance" oriel and is decorated with large moulded panels that echo the detail of the quoin pilasters. The three-storey channelled stucco canted bay features a hipped roof and a wing with architraved sashes. The blind part of the east front also displays the same moulded panel detail.

Inside, the house retains Chambers' D-plan stair compartment, which includes a fine stone geometrical staircase and an elegant wrought iron balustrade with a scrolled S pattern. The northwest ground floor preserves plasterwork and a fine statuary marble chimney piece designed by John Walsh based on Chambers' designs.

Local climate

Warwick 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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