Audley House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Block of flats. 11 related planning applications.
Audley House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-postern-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Block of flats
- Address
- Audley House, 9-12, Margaret Street W1, City of Westminster, W1W 8RH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 814
- Coordinates
- 51.51706, -0.13955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Audley House is a block of flats built in 1907 by architects J.W. Simpson and M. Ayrton. The building features red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, designed in a Free Style Tudor manner. It is a large, symmetrical structure that stands five storeys tall, with a basement, attics, and part mansard roof. The facade is 15 bays wide, including an oriel corner turret facing Great Titchfield Street.
The front of the building has recessed, stone-dressed flat arched doorways at the center of each section, which are linked to Nos. 11 and 12. The ground floor includes bay windows, some of which have been altered. The windows are sheer stone mullioned and transomed casements. The centerpiece of the elevation features two steep stone gables, alternating with four-storey stone canted oriels and four two-storey stone oriels on the flanking sections.
Above the third floor, there is a modillion bracketed stone cornice that integrates with the oriel bays of the centerpiece. The gable end facing Great Titchfield Street has a cornice that returns behind the corner oriel turrets, with a central first-floor semicircular arched window that has an eared architrave and opens onto a balcony. A corbelled chimney stack rises through the shaped gable.
A short screen wall with a gateway separates the gable end from the adjacent block, providing fine views of the All Saints tower. The area railings feature Arts and Crafts ironwork. The building is listed in part for its group value.
Local climate
Audley 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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