Abbey (Canons') Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Office. 11 related planning applications.
Abbey (Canons') Garden
- WRENN ID
- woven-gable-spindle
- 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
- Office
- Address
- Abbey (Canons') Garden, Great College Street, City of Westminster, SW1P 3RX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 793
- Coordinates
- 51.49774, -0.12668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey (Canons') Garden is a former canon's house that has been converted into offices. It was built in 1882 by architect J.L. Pearson. The building is constructed of red brick with extensive stone dressings and features slate roofs, showcasing a restrained Tudor-Gothic style. It has two storeys and a basement, with attics beneath gabled roofs. The north and south fronts each have three windows, with the more elaborate north front facing the garden. The outer window bays are advanced and gabled.
The central entrance features a four-centred arched doorway with moulded jambs and a drip mould. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, with iron frames and cusped arches under squared heads, spanning the full width of the advanced gabled bays. The stone dressings rise at the angles, complemented by weathered sill courses and flush stone bands, and the gables are stone-coped. There are external chimney stacks on the flanks and twin chimney stacks on the central ridge, linked by a stone bridge-capping with blank tracery. The rear south elevation is plainer but similar, located behind the Precinct wall and overlooking Great College Street.
Local climate
Abbey (Canons') Garden 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 — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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