163, Wardour Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terrace house. 3 related planning applications.
163, Wardour Street W1
- WRENN ID
- strange-joist-indigo
- 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
- Terrace house
- Address
- 163, Wardour Street W1, City of Westminster, W1F 8WL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 295 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51457, -0.13501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 163 Wardour Street is a terrace house dating from around 1735, paired with No. 161. It is constructed of stock brick and has a slate roof. The building stands four storeys tall and is two windows wide. The ground floor has been altered, while the upper floors feature reversed sash windows with later 19th-century glazing set in stuccoed reveals beneath segmental arches made of gauged red brick, with stone sills. Brick plat bands separate the upper floors, and the building is topped with a parapet and coping. There is a commemorative plaque from the London County Council noting that Thomas Sheraton, a notable figure who lived from 1751 to 1806, resided here.
Local climate
163, Wardour 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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