20-24, Shaftesbury Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1974. Commercial building. 13 related planning applications.
20-24, Shaftesbury Avenue
- WRENN ID
- old-crypt-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 20-24, Shaftesbury Avenue, City of Westminster, W1D 7EU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51084, -0.13355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 20-24 Shaftesbury Avenue is a commercial building dating from around 1900. It features red brick with some red sandstone and a slated mansard roof, designed in a Free Dutch manner. The building has four main storeys plus an attic and consists of 14 main bays. A Dutch gable is present over the three left-hand bays and over bays 8, 9, and 10. The doorways, which have segmental pediments, are located at the first, ninth, and after the fourteenth bays, and they are framed with red sandstone surrounds. Corinthian pilasters support the second and third floors of bays 8, 9, and 10. The windows are square-headed casements, except for the top storey, which features round-headed windows. A richly carved brick frieze runs above the second floor on the outer bays, topped by a cornice above the third floor. The building has Dutch gabled dormers and a corner tower on the right with a pointed roof. The ground floor has bay windowed timber shopfronts with curved plate glass and arched lights above, and there is a return to the right in red sandstone.
Local climate
20-24, Shaftesbury Avenue 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 — 13 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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