73, New Cavendish Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town villa. 1 related planning application.

73, New Cavendish Street W1

WRENN ID
leaning-jamb-russet
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
Town villa
Address
73, New Cavendish Street W1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 288 817
Coordinates
51.52, -0.14412
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 73 New Cavendish Street is a town villa that was rebuilt in the late 19th century from a Portland Place mews building. It features stucco cladding and a front pitch roof covered with slate fish scale slates. This building is an interesting example of "Regency" Revival architecture. It has two storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof. The façade is five windows wide, with a central entrance bay that is slightly advanced.

The ground floor has channelled stucco and a semicircular arched doorway at the center, framed by pilasters that support an entablature with a modillioned cornice. The door is panelled, with a moulded doorhead and reveal that is enhanced with rope moulding and a keystone. The windows are recessed sashes, with one being blind on the ground floor, while those on the first floor are set in eared architraves. The building features rusticated quoins, an enriched cornice above the ground floor, and a crowning entablature with a modillion cornice and a blocking course that is slightly inflected over the central break. The dormers have shouldered bases and segmental arched cornice-hoods. This building is an early example of the Portland Estate's efforts to reintroduce a modest domestic residential scale in the area, a scheme that was pursued on these east-west cross streets in the early 1900s.

Local climate

73, New Cavendish Street W1 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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