Wellington Barracks West Guardhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Guardhouse.
Wellington Barracks West Guardhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-cinder-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Guardhouse
- Address
- Wellington Barracks West Guardhouse, Birdcage Walk Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1E 6HQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50023, -0.1391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wellington Barracks West Guardhouse is a guardhouse built around 1833 by Sir Frederick Smith, with Philip Hardwick as the consultant. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof. This Grecian Doric guardhouse serves as the lodge at the west gate entrance to the parade ground from Birdcage Walk. It is a single-storey structure that is six windows long, with projecting entrance bays on the north and south sides. These bays are supported by Greek Doric columns in antis that carry entablatures with pediments and architraved doorways, although the doorway facing Birdcage Walk is blocked.
At the east end, by the gate, there is a tetrastyle Greek Doric portico that contains the entrance to the guardroom, which has a panelled door and a fanlight set back in an architrave, flanked by pilasters. The guardhouse features recessed glazing bar sash windows in architraves on both the Birdcage Walk and parade ground sides, which are highlighted by Doric pilasters that support an entablature and blocking course. Additionally, there is an in antis Greek Doric portico at the west end.
Local climate
Wellington Barracks West Guardhouse 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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