Stanhope House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Town mansion. 17 related planning applications.
Stanhope House
- WRENN ID
- turning-rotunda-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Town mansion
- Address
- Stanhope House, 46 and 47, Park Lane W1, City of Westminster, W1K 1PW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 802
- Coordinates
- 51.5068, -0.15176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stanhope House is a town mansion built between 1899 and 1901 by architects Romaine Walker and Besant. It is constructed from Forest of Dean sandstone and features a slate roof. The building showcases ornate and well-detailed late Gothic elevations, standing four storeys high with a basement and dormers. The façade is three windows wide, with an extension on the left side and an entrance porch also to the left.
Notable architectural features include three symmetrical through-storey canted stone mullioned and transomed bay windows, which have traceried heads above the lights, traceried parapets, and blind tracery aprons. Similar decorative details are present on the return facing Stanhope Gate. The building also has pierced-work traceried area parapets.
Inside, the Gothic style is continued in the entrance hall, while the fine oval stairwell and principal first-floor rooms are decorated in a highly accomplished neo-Adam style, featuring ornate plasterwork ceilings and other details.
Local climate
Stanhope House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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