Wyndhams Theatre is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Theatre. 39 related planning applications.
Wyndhams Theatre
- WRENN ID
- wild-chancel-honey
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Theatre
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Wyndhams Theatre, Charing Cross Road Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2H 0DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51111, -0.12804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wyndham's Theatre is a theatre built in 1899 by W.G.R. Sprague. It features a Portland stone facing and a concealed roof, showcasing a free classical facade. The building is two and three storeys high with attics and is five windows wide. The centerpiece includes a triple group of foyer doorways topped by mezzanine oculi in enriched frames. There is a balustraded loggia on the first floor with Ionic pilasters that separate the arcaded windows, and above the entablature is a sculpted pediment against a blind attic. The taller single bay wings have archivolt arched openings on the ground and first floors, two mezzanine windows at pediment level, and two attic windows. A glass and iron canopy from the 1920s covers the ground floor. Inside, the auditorium is finely preserved with elegant "Louis XVI" plasterwork on the balconies of the horseshoe dress and upper circles, a steeply raked gallery, ornate stage boxes, and a richly gilded architectural frame around the proscenium arch.
Local climate
Wyndhams Theatre 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 — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 39 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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