55-73, Duke Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terrace of shops and chambers. 16 related planning applications.
55-73, Duke Street
- WRENN ID
- tattered-soffit-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Terrace of shops and chambers
- Address
- 55-73, Duke Street, Duke Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 5NS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51378, -0.15093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of shops and chambers built between 1890 and 1892 by W.D. Caröe for the Grosvenor Estate. The building is constructed of fine red brick with Ketton stone dressings and a ground floor facing, topped with a slate roof. It displays a lively, eclectic style drawing from Franco-Flemish Renaissance and Queen Anne influences.
The terrace has three main storeys, plus two storeys of dormers set into a steep mansard roof. A two-storey Flemish gable dominates the principal, six-window-wide double frontage. The overall composition is slightly asymmetrical, with the gabled double frontage being offset, flanked by sections of two and three windows, but with varied window groupings. The stone-faced ground floor features doorways with basket handles and display windows, articulated by a French Loire-style order with strapwork, cartouche and baluster decorations, rising to a cornice.
The upper floors have architraved and cavetto mullioned windows, both single and coupled, arranged in ranks to the second floor of the double frontage. The first floor of numbers 61 to 63 features a tent-roofed, mullioned and transomed canted bay supported on corbel brackets. Numbers 71 and 73 have tripartite, rectangular, tent-roofed, corbelled bay windows to their first floors. The bay window of number 73 is integrated into a stone-faced, narrow square turret that rises through the second floor and mansard roof, terminating in a concave spire. Similarly, number 57 has a turret, finished with an onion dome and spirelet, at its north end. Pseudo-parapets are present on the first and second floors, with a crowning entablature and superimposed Loire orders flanking the frontages. The roofscape is highly elaborate, including canted stone dormers at the lower tier and hipped roof dormers with spirelets at the upper tier. The double frontage is surmounted by an elaborated, voluted and ball-finialed Flemish gable. Moulded saddlestones are visible on the front walls, rising from large console buttresses, and there is a tall brick chimney stack with enriched stone caps.
This terrace is closely related to Caröe's slightly later block at numbers 75 to 83, Duke Street.
Local climate
55-73, Duke Street 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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