48, Welbeck Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 2 related planning applications.

48, Welbeck Street W1

WRENN ID
pitched-bailey-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Town house
Address
48, Welbeck Street W1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 284 814
Coordinates
51.51776, -0.14969
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 48 Welbeck Street is a terraced town house built around 1780 as part of the Cavendish-Harley Estate development. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys high with a dormered mansard roof and a basement, and it is three windows wide.

The entrance is marked by a semicircular arched doorway located to the right, adorned with vermiculated rustic dressings, likely made of Coade stone, and a decorated keystone. The door is panelled and has a fanlight above it. The upper floors have recessed sash windows with glazing bars intact on the second and third floors, all set under flat gauged arches. The stucco work is finished with a plat band, and the building has a parapet with stone coping.

A continuous cast iron balcony with a bowed baluster pattern is present on the first floor, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials. Inside, the house retains its front compartment staircases, which feature slender turned balusters, as well as some plasterwork in the Adam style and decorative doorcases. A plaque from the Greater London Council notes that Thomas Young once resided here.

Local climate

48, Welbeck 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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