Coroner's Court is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Court. 27 related planning applications.
Coroner's Court
- WRENN ID
- first-quoin-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Court
- Address
- Coroner's Court, Horseferry Road Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 2ED
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 789
- Coordinates
- 51.49468, -0.13172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coroner's Court, built in 1893 by G. R. W. Wheeler, is a small free-standing building located on Horseferry Road in the City of Westminster. It is an early example of the Arts and Crafts style, combining elements of neo-Georgian and Jacobean architecture. The building is constructed of red brick and Portland stone, featuring a slate roof and stands three storeys tall with three windows across the front.
A central arched porch supports a first-floor bow window that has mullioned and transomed lights. The upper lights of the bow window are divided by shafts and topped with a domed roof. The ground floor windows are designed in a modified Venetian style, featuring a central glazing bar sash beneath a semicircular rubbed-brick arch with spaced stone voussoirs. These windows are separated from the side lights by very short, block-banded columns topped with an impost-entablature. Flanking the bow window are three-light stone mullioned and transomed windows. The attic storey contains five windows. A moulded stone cornice runs above the first floor, and there is a bracketed stone eaves cornice leading to the pyramidal slate roof.
Local climate
Coroner's Court 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 27 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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