17 and 18, Great College Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Residential. 8 related planning applications.
17 and 18, Great College Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-bastion-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 17 and 18, Great College Street, City of Westminster, SW1P 3RX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 792
- Coordinates
- 51.49762, -0.12754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 17 and 18 on Great College Street are a pair of terraced houses built around 1720-1722. They feature a brown brick exterior and a tiled roof. Each house has three storeys and a basement, with dormered mansards, and both fronts are two windows wide. The doorways are located on the left and right sides, framed by wooden architraves with cornice hoods supported by carved console brackets. The windows have flush framed glazing bar sashes set beneath flat gauged red brick arches, with rounded arches on the ground floor and flat arches above, along with red brick dressed jambs and stone sills. The buildings have a parapet with coping and a wrought-iron scrolled lamp standard. Number 18 retains its original lead rainwater head and downpipe. Inside, the houses have closet wings at the rear and many rooms still feature their original panelling and box cornices. The passage halls include pilastered archways leading to dog leg closed string staircases with turned balusters and decorative details.
Local climate
17 and 18, Great College Street 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 2025
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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