125, Pall Mall SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1973. Office block. 3 related planning applications.
125, Pall Mall SW1
- WRENN ID
- half-panel-owl
- 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
- Office block
- Address
- 125, Pall Mall SW1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 5EA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50751, -0.13102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 125 Pall Mall is an office block built between 1912 and 1913 by architects H.R. Houchin and Frank Smee. The building is constructed from Portland stone and features a copper dome. It showcases an eclectic Baroque style, prominently positioned to close the vista of Haymarket. The structure has five storeys, including a podium ground floor with a mezzanine, three main storeys, and two tiers of attics beneath the dome.
The facade is two windows wide, with one major bay aligned with Pall Mall and a narrow bay angled towards Cockspur Street. The ground and mezzanine levels have a rusticated framework, although the mid-20th century bank frontage has been altered. The major bay features deeply recessed bronzed casement windows across the three upper storeys, framed by a channelled wall face. An entablature with a prominent modillion cornice and parapet sits above.
The dome rises above the building, featuring two tiers of attic windows in the drum, flanked by scrolled voluted buttresses and an enriched cresting cornice. The copper dome is topped with a finial that includes an openwork globe crowned by a weathervane shaped like a ship. Tall corniced chimney stacks are located at either end of the building.
Local climate
125, Pall Mall 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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