14 and 16, New Cavendish Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Chambers, flats. 10 related planning applications.
14 and 16, New Cavendish Street W1
- WRENN ID
- lone-bonework-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Chambers, flats
- Address
- 14 and 16, New Cavendish Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8UW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51853, -0.1509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 14 and 16 New Cavendish Street are chambers or flats with a shop, built in 1900 by H Saul and G Harvey. The building is constructed of fine red brick with stone dressings and a stone-faced ground floor, using granite up to a low impost level; it has a slate roof. The design is in a restrained Free Style, incorporating Arts and Crafts details such as relief carving and lettering.
The building is five storeys tall, rising to a full-width gable. The ground floor is tripartite, with a shop flanked by recessed doorways leading to flats. These doorways are sheltered by extended cornice-hoods supported on console brackets, with stylised tree carvings in shallow relief between the brackets adjacent to the shop front. The shop front itself has a wide, deeply moulded depressed arch. The three storeys above have two widely spaced bays, each featuring a shallow segmental oriel with mullioned-transomed leaded casement lights that rise to the soffit of a prominent cornice with grouped brackets. The attic storey has two tripartite casements of Venetian design.
A frieze on the ground floor cornice is inscribed with "E. Davies and Son" in stylised lettering, sitting above the shop front and flanked by carved tree motifs. An additional carved frieze, located between the bowed oriels under the main cornice, depicts a peacock framed by foliage. The gable displays freely carved large leaf scrolls as applied kneelers, and elongated tree “finials” carved in relief rise from the arched lights of the attic windows to steps in the saddle stone. Arts and Crafts style rainwater goods are visible along the party wall lines.
Local climate
14 and 16, New Cavendish Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 13 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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