The Volunteer Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1982. Public house. 10 related planning applications.

The Volunteer Public House

WRENN ID
iron-beam-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 April 1982
Type
Public house
Address
The Volunteer Public House, 245 and 247, Baker Street Nw1, City of Westminster, NW1 6XE
OS grid reference
TQ 278 821
Coordinates
51.52392, -0.15866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Volunteer Public House is a public house dating from around 1815, part of the Portman Estate development. It is finished in stucco and has a concealed slate roof. The building is four storeys high and six windows wide, incorporating one former terrace house. The public house features a frontage with bar windows that have panelled risers, along with reeded panelled and glazed double doors framed by pilasters. This is topped by an entablature-fascia with a dentil cornice. The upper floors have recessed sash windows, some of which include glazing bars. The windows in the four right-hand bays have architraves, with the first-floor windows featuring cornices on consoles, while the ones above have paterae stops to their architraves.

Local climate

The Volunteer Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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