8, Queen Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1986. Terrace house. 5 related planning applications.
8, Queen Street W1
- WRENN ID
- lone-stone-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1986
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 8, Queen Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5PA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50741, -0.14699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Queen Street is a mid-18th century terrace house located in the City of Westminster. The building is constructed of brown brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall, plus a basement, and is two windows wide. To the right, there is an architrave doorcase topped with a cornice hood supported by console brackets. The ground floor sash window has a flat voussoired arch with channelling, while the upper floors are adorned with stucco architraves. The second floor has eared architraves with bracketed sills, and the first floor features cornices on consoles. A sill band is present on the third floor, along with a crowning cornice and blocking course. The first floor is protected by early 19th century cast iron window guards, and there are cast iron area railings surrounding the property.
Local climate
8, Queen 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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