Gate Piers at Rear Entrance to Tothill House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Shop. 3 related planning applications.
Gate Piers at Rear Entrance to Tothill House
- WRENN ID
- old-panel-sedge
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- Gate Piers at Rear Entrance to Tothill House, 14, Vincent Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1P 4HB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 787
- Coordinates
- 51.49313, -0.13057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers at the rear entrance to Tothill House are part of a housing estate that was originally a lodge, now functioning as a shop. Built between 1928 and 1930, the design was overseen by consultant Sir Edwin Lutyens as part of the Westminster Housing Scheme for the Grosvenor Estate. The structure is made of Portland stone and grey brick, topped with a slate roof, and showcases a Neo-Georgian style.
It is a single-storey pavilion featuring a tripartite front with a central glazing bar sash window flanked by fixed side lights. The entrance includes glazed and panelled doors set in stone architraves, with similar sash windows on the returns. The building is accentuated by deeply channelled piers and quoin piers, and has a cornice and parapet below the eaves of a pyramidal roof, which is topped with a crowning finial. The gate piers, made of ashlar and topped with ball finials, are positioned adjacent to the structure, with one pier on the left side abutting the end of the long courtyard and range of Tothill House.
Local climate
Gate Piers at Rear Entrance to Tothill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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