Crofton House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Mansion block. 20 related planning applications.
Crofton House
- WRENN ID
- inner-landing-poplar
- 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
- Mansion block
- Address
- Crofton House, 1-5, New Cavendish Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8US
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51883, -0.15119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crofton House is a mansion block with shops on the ground floor, built in 1904. It features a combination of brown brick, red brick, and stone dressings, and stands four storeys high with an additional roof storey. The building has seven bays, including a polygonal corner tower on the left. The ground floor showcases 19th and 20th-century shopfronts, while the first and second floors are adorned with bay windows. The second and seventh bays from the left have square windows with five lights, each topped with ogeed gables on the dormers. The intervening bay windows are canted and consist of four lights. The windows are both mullioned and transomed, with the third floor windows featuring arched central lights. There are iron balconies on the third floor, and a cornice sits above it. The dormers are arched with mullions and transoms, and a tall banded chimney is located between the fourth and fifth bays. The building also includes an octagonal corner turret with circular windows and an ogee dome, and it displays a sparing use of delicately carved ornament.
Local climate
Crofton House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 20 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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