156-170, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1973. Office, shop.
156-170, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- quartered-spire-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1973
- Type
- Office, shop
- Address
- 156-170, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information), 62 and 70, Warwick Street, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51206, -0.13908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 156-170 Regent Street in Westminster, is a Grade II listed block of offices and shops that began construction in 1904 by Crickmay and Sons. It features a Portland stone exterior with a slate roof and red polished granite on the ground and first floors, showcasing a Baroque-classical style. The structure has four storeys, with attics and a steep mansard roof that includes dormer windows.
The symmetrical facade is 11 windows wide, with three slightly advanced flanking bays and rounded, domed corners. The ground floor has mid-20th century shop fronts. The corner, end, and central bays on the ground and first floors have semicircular arched recesses, which are flanked by rusticated pilasters supporting an entablature. The upper floors feature architraved sash windows with cornices on the second floor and a central segmental pediment.
The three-window end bays are adorned with giant pilasters that rise through the first and second floors, supporting an entablature and segmental pediments with carved tympana. The balustraded parapets are topped with lion finials. The bowed corners are highlighted by engaged Ionic columns that extend through the second and third floors, carrying a continuous entablature. These columns continue through the fourth and fifth floors, culminating in copper domes with cornices, scrolled buttresses, and enriched lunettes.
Local climate
156-170, REGENT STREET W1 (See details for further address information) 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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