54 and 56, Great Cumberland Place W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. House.
54 and 56, Great Cumberland Place W1
- WRENN ID
- white-thatch-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 54 and 56, Great Cumberland Place W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 277 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51625, -0.16001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 54 and 56 Great Cumberland Place are a pair of terraced houses built around 1800 to 1820 as part of the Portman Estate development. They are constructed of stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors and have concealed slate roofs. The buildings rise four storeys at No. 54 and five storeys at No. 56, both set above basements. Each house has a two-window wide front. The doorways and ground floor windows on the right side are recessed within an arcade. No. 54 features a porch with Tuscan columns and a dentil cornice, along with panelled doors and fanlights. The upper floors have recessed sash windows beneath flat gauged arches. A plat band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, while No. 56 has a stone-coped parapet. No. 54 is adorned with a stucco string course over the third floor, and both houses have original cast iron balconies with geometric patterns on the first floor, as well as cast iron area railings topped with urn finials.
Local climate
54 and 56, Great Cumberland Place W1 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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