78, Park Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terrace house.
78, Park Street W1
- WRENN ID
- first-parapet-pigeon
- 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 house
- Address
- 78, Park Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51129, -0.15465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 78 Park Street is a terrace house built around 1729 by the bricklayer John Barnes. The house is constructed of brown brick with red brick window dressings and features early 19th-century rendering on the ground floor. It has four storeys, originally three, along with a basement, and is three windows wide. There is an architraved doorway to the left and slightly recessed box framed sash windows, which are set under flat gauged red brick arches. The parapet has coping, and the first-floor windows are adorned with early 19th-century cast iron balconettes. The area railings are topped with spear head urn finials.
Inside, the house retains nearly complete full panelling, including a passage-hall and an angle fireplace closet wing. The dog leg staircase features a closed string, turned balusters, and column newels, along with box cornices.
Local climate
78, Park Street 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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