39, Harley Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
39, Harley Street W1
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-landing-cedar
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 39, Harley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51826, -0.14685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 39 Harley Street is a terraced town house rebuilt in 1893-94 by F.M. Elgood. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a tiled roof in a Free Style Renaissance design. The building has four storeys and a dormered mansard, set over a basement, and is three windows wide.
The channelled ground floor includes a semicircular arched, keystoned doorway on the left, which is framed by an Ionic columned open pediment doorcase. To the right, there is a canted bay window with three sash lights, topped with an ornamental iron balustrade.
On the first floor, there is a five-light window in an extended Venetian composition, articulated by Tuscan columns, with a keystoned archivolt arched centre light and narrow brick panels on either side of the arch. The second and third floors feature three recessed sashes under flat gauged arches with keystones and aprons at the sills.
Additional architectural details include a plat band over the ground floor, quoins flanking the upper floors, a sill course on the second floor, and an enriched crowning cornice. The dormers are segmental pedimented, and there are cast iron area railings.
Local climate
39, Harley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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