42, Queen Anne's Gate SW1 is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A C18 Townhouse. 9 related planning applications.
42, Queen Anne's Gate SW1
- WRENN ID
- proud-rafter-thunder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 42, Queen Anne's Gate SW1, City of Westminster, SW1H 9AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50041, -0.13406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 Queen Anne's Gate is a Grade I listed corner terraced town house built around 1700 to 1704, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It was constructed as part of the original Queen Square development. The building features a stucco-faced brown brick exterior and a slate roof, standing three storeys tall with a basement and a dormered mansard.
The façade is five windows wide, with a three-window return on the north side. A central semicircular arched doorway with an architrave and fanlight serves as the main entrance, while the former entrance to the right of the return has been altered to a bow window. The windows are slightly recessed framed sashes set under flat arches, with the ground and first-floor windows retaining original stone mask keystones. The building also has first and second-floor plat bands and a parapet with coping.
Inside, the property retains original features such as panelling, cornices, and a cut and carved string staircase with three twisted balusters per tread. No. 42 is part of an exceptional group of Queen Anne houses.
Local climate
42, Queen Anne's Gate SW1 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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