Walmar House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. Office and shop block. 19 related planning applications.
Walmar House
- WRENN ID
- first-dormer-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- Office and shop block
- Address
- Walmar House, 188-300, Regent Street W1, City of Westminster, W1B 3AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 290 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51624, -0.14201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walmar House is a block of offices and shops located between Great Castle Street and Margaret Street in the City of Westminster. It was designed by C.T. Armstrong around 1915 and completed by W.J. Fryer around 1920. The building features a Portland ashlar facing and a slate roof, showcasing a Sub Beaux Arts style.
The structure is four storeys high, with an attic storey and two tiers of dormers in a steep mansard roof. It is five major bays wide, with each bay containing three windows, and the ends of the building slightly recessed with one and two windows. The corners are splayed, and there are six window returns.
The ground floor has shop windows and doorways that have been altered, framed by tall engaged Roman Doric columns that support a modified entablature. The upper floors feature recessed metal casement windows, with the central first floor window of each major bay flanked by engaged Doric columns that carry a continuous entablature, alternating between triangular and segmental pediments. A fluted plat band is present at the second floor level, along with a modified Greek Doric main cornice, which is topped by three light dormers. The roof includes bronze edge castings, and there are cast iron balconies at the second floor windows.
Local climate
Walmar 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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