Shell Mex House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Office block. 62 related planning applications.
Shell Mex House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-attic-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Shell Mex House, Strand Wc2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 304 806
- Coordinates
- 51.5097, -0.12128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shell-Mex House is an 1931 office block situated in the City of Westminster, designed by Messrs Joseph, with F Milton Cashmore as Principal Designer, and sculpted by WCH King. The building is constructed of Portland stone and features a flat roof. It rises to eleven or fifteen storeys. The riverside facade is symmetrical, encompassing seventeen bays and stepped inwards at the upper levels, culminating in a short central tower with a clock and buttresses incorporating inset sculpted figures. The ground floor has an open, round arched arcade. Square headed windows are set within giant relieving arches, rising from the ninth to eleventh floors in the fourth and fourteenth bays, plus the returns. An arched window is located below the clock and on the returns of the tower. Metal framed casements are present. Returns are visible to the left and right. The section along the Strand frontage (Nos. 76-88) is not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Shell Mex House 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 — 6 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 62 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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