34-38, Mortimer Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Commercial premises. 8 related planning applications.
34-38, Mortimer Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-pillar-yew
- 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
- Commercial premises
- Address
- 34-38, Mortimer Street, City of Westminster, W1W 7AQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51803, -0.13995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 34-38 on Mortimer Street are commercial premises built in 1915. The building features a white faience exterior with turquoise glazed brick, designed in a free classical style. It stands five storeys tall and has three main bays. The ground floor includes canted bay windows that are separated by Ionic 'Jacobean' pilaster strips, topped by a dentil cornice. The first floor showcases continuous arcaded round-headed windows, with semi-Gothic Corinthian columns between them. The outer bays on the second and third floors have round-headed architraved windows. A central two-storey bay window extends through the second and third floors, featuring mullions and transoms with two and three lights, and a continuous Doric loggia at the fourth floor level. Above the third floor, there is a modillion cornice and a decorative frieze, along with a subsidiary cornice for the loggia, which is adorned with an iron balustrade.
Local climate
34-38, Mortimer Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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