20, Greek Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. House, shop. 7 related planning applications.
20, Greek Street W1
- WRENN ID
- sacred-lime-heath
- 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, shop
- Address
- 20, Greek Street W1, City of Westminster, W1D 4DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51389, -0.13047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Greek Street is a house and shop that was rebuilt in 1842, originally serving as a shop for Hopkins and Purvis, colourmen. The building is constructed of stock brick and has a concealed roof. It stands four storeys tall and is two windows wide. The ground floor features an original shop front with a house door to the right and two display windows on either side of the shop doorway. These elements are framed by wooden pilasters that support an entablature with a fascia that includes a dentil cornice and carved bracket stops. The ground floor also has a panelled house door and a panelled and glazed shop door with shutters, both topped with rectangular fanlights. The display windows have small panes set on panelled risers.
On the upper floors, there are recessed glazing bar sashes set in stucco architraves, with those on the first floor featuring cornices on consoles and bracketed sills. A stucco string course runs above the second floor, and the building is topped with a crowning stucco modillion cornice and blocking course. Additionally, there is a large swivel hoist adorned with scrolled ironwork located below the left-hand first floor window.
Local climate
20, Greek Street 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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