Agnew's is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Commercial premises. 10 related planning applications.
Agnew's
- WRENN ID
- second-flagstone-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Agnew's, 42 and 43, Old Bond Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 4QS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50841, -0.14053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Agnew's is a commercial building and gallery located at 42 and 43 Old Bond Street in the City of Westminster, constructed in 1877 by E. Salomons. This building is designed in a fine quality red brick with a slate roof and exhibits a Queen Anne transitional style. It stands four storeys tall and is three windows wide.
The ground floor has been rebuilt in the later 20th century but maintains a design that is in keeping with the original style, featuring a gallery window to the right and an entrance to the left, which has a brick plat band arched over it. Above the doorway, there are two original oculi flanking an ornately moulded brick console bracket that supports a sharply bowed oriel window, which spans three storeys and is flanked by pilasters. This oriel features glazing bar sash windows.
To the right, there are two windows set within vertically linked through-storey architraves made of moulded brick, also with glazing bar sashes. Each floor of the front façade is adorned with moulded brick cornices, including over the oriel. Additionally, there are brick pediments over the right-hand window bays above the third-floor cornice, which are situated under balustraded sections of the parapet.
Local climate
Agnew's 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 — 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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