56, Shepherd Market W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1975. Terrace house. 1 related planning application.
56, Shepherd Market W1
- WRENN ID
- swift-paling-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1975
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 56, Shepherd Market W1, City of Westminster, W1J 8PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 802
- Coordinates
- 51.5065, -0.14712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Shepherd Market is a terrace house, likely built in the late 18th century. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, standing four storeys tall and two windows wide. The ground floor has a mid-20th century shop front. The windows above are recessed sash windows without glazing bars. The building has a parapet with coping. It is part of the Shepherd Market development, which was laid out around 1735 and constructed around 1746 by Edward Shepherd, who was responsible for building and designing on the Grosvenor and Cavendish Estates.
Local climate
56, Shepherd Market 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 35 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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