Cabmen's Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Shelter. 1 related planning application.

Cabmen's Shelter

WRENN ID
cold-threshold-myrtle
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
Shelter
Address
Cabmen's Shelter, Temple Place Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2R 2PH
OS grid reference
TQ 309 808
Coordinates
51.51104, -0.1147
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cabmen's Shelter, built around 1900, was erected by the Cabmen's Shelter Fund. It is a timber-framed, rectangular structure with tongue and groove construction and a tiled gable end roof. The shelter features sliding casements on the sides and the west gable end, with a door located on the east gable end. The roof has a crested ridge with finials and a louvred central lantern, all of which remain intact. This shelter is a rare and largely unaltered example of its kind.

Local climate

Cabmen's Shelter 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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