20, Devereux Court is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Former public house. 4 related planning applications.
20, Devereux Court
- WRENN ID
- second-flagstone-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Former public house
- Address
- 20, Devereux Court, London, City of Westminster, WC2R 3JJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51283, -0.11255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This end-of-terrace building began as a coffee house around 1676 as part of a development by Nicholas Barbon. It was later remodelled as a public house in 1843. The building's stucco exterior has three storeys and six windows wide, with a three-window south-facing return. The ground floor is rusticated and features two double-panelled and glazed doors, flanked by renewed Georgian-style windows. The upper floors have recessed sash windows. A plat band is positioned above the ground floor, and a moulded sill course features projecting sills on the second floor. The roofline is finished with a cornice and blocking course. A plaque reads "This is Devereux Court, 1676," and a bust of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is positioned on the corner above a plaque inscribed "Eldon Chambers AD 1844." The Grecian Coffee House, the building's original form, was mentioned in the "Tatler" of 1709 as a popular meeting place for members of the Royal Society; it was one of Barbon’s speculative building projects.
Local climate
20, Devereux Court 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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