17-19, Cockspur Street SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Headquarters offices. 4 related planning applications.
17-19, Cockspur Street SW1
- WRENN ID
- open-transept-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Headquarters offices
- Address
- 17-19, Cockspur Street SW1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 5BL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50751, -0.13051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 17 to 19 Cockspur Street is a pair of headquarters offices built in 1907 by Sir Aston Webb. The building is constructed from Portland stone on a steel frame and features a slate roof. It showcases a lofty and restrained "Roman Mannerist" design, standing six storeys tall with a dormered mansard roof and is six windows wide.
The ground floor has a shop front from the 1970s, with the facing extending up to the sills of the first floor. The first floor is channelled and has plain square-headed windows, while the second floor features architraved windows grouped in pairs, with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The upper floors also have architraved windows, and the attic windows are set in concave splays between piers.
A dentil cornice runs below the attic storey, topped by a heavy crowning modillion cornice. The dormers have alternating pediments, and the second and fifth floors include stone balconettes. Sculpted and coloured heraldic panels are located at the third and fourth floor levels, with cartouche plaques flanking the central pair of second-floor windows and a similar plaque directly above them. The interior of the ground floor features a wide painted frieze by Sir Frank Brangwyn.
Local climate
17-19, Cockspur Street SW1 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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