Wellington Barracks East Guardhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Guardhouse.
Wellington Barracks East Guardhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-nave-nettle
- 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
- Guardhouse
- Address
- Wellington Barracks East Guardhouse, Birdcage Walk Sw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 294 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50051, -0.13634
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wellington Barracks East Guardhouse is a guardhouse built around 1833 by Sir Frederick Smith, with Philip Hardwick as the consultant. It is constructed of stucco and has a slate roof. This Grecian Doric guardhouse-lodge is located at the east gate entrance to the parade ground from Birdcage Walk and is a single-storey building that is six windows long.
The guardhouse features projecting entrance bays on the north and south sides, which are supported by Greek Doric columns in antis. These columns carry entablatures with pediments and architraved doorways, although the doorway facing Birdcage Walk is blocked. At the west end, there is a tetrastyle Greek Doric portico that leads to the entrance of the guardroom, which includes a panelled door and a fanlight set within an architrave, flanked by pilasters.
The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set in architraves, with both the Birdcage Walk and parade ground sides articulated by Doric pilasters that support an entablature and blocking course. Additionally, there is an in antis Greek Doric portico at the east end.
Local climate
Wellington Barracks East Guardhouse 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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