Sotheby's is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Auction house. 13 related planning applications.
Sotheby's
- WRENN ID
- bitter-zinc-bistre
- 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
- Auction house
- Address
- Sotheby's, 34 and 35, New Bond Street W1, City of Westminster, W1A 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51185, -0.14372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 34 and 35, known as Sotheby's, is a building originally constructed as a house in the early 18th century, which was altered in the mid-19th century to serve as auction rooms. The exterior is faced with stucco and topped with a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with a mansard attic and features four windows across the upper floors above the ground floor.
The central entrance is designed in a gothic style and includes a porch with a gable that displays a piece of Egyptian sculpture dating to around 1320 BC. The entrance is flanked by broad windows with segmental arched splayed reveals. The upper floors have sash windows that reveal late 18th-century glazing bars, with the first-floor windows featuring cornices set above flat heads, and a cornice and blocking course above the second floor. Inside, the building retains mid-19th-century and early 20th-century top-lit auction rooms.
Local climate
Sotheby's 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 — 13 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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