17, Exeter Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. A Victorian Office.
17, Exeter Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- rough-railing-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Office
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 17, Exeter Street WC2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 809
- Coordinates
- 51.512, -0.11971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Exeter Street is a Grade II listed building located in the City of Westminster, built between 1863 and 1864 by Charles Octavius Parnell as the Victoria Sporting Club. The building features a stucco exterior with a slate roof and showcases a lush Italianate-Baroque style at the corner, while the flanks are more simply detailed. It consists of three main storeys raised on a basement, with an attic storey above.
The façade facing Exeter Street is eight windows wide, with a bowed projecting corner and a three-window return to Wellington Street. The corner entrance has a flight of steps leading up to a deeply recessed doorway, which is semicircular arched and flanked by coupled rusticated columns. The adjoining bays on each front are treated as part of the overall design, featuring oculi in the tympana of archivolts above the windows, which are also flanked by coupled rusticated pilasters.
The first floor is similarly elaborated with a Venetian window. The flanks of the building have channelled arcaded ground floor windows, while the upper floors feature architraved and keystoned sash windows. A sill band runs along the first floor, with a cornice above it and a pseudo-parapet serving as a sill course to the second floor. The main entablature has a modillion cornice that breaks forward over the corner feature, and there is a cornice and blocking course at the attic storey. The building occupies a prominent corner site.
Local climate
17, Exeter Street WC2 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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