Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Porter's lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1
- WRENN ID
- quiet-eave-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Porter's lodge
- Address
- Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1, Stratford Place W1, City of Westminster, W1C 1BA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51453, -0.14898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Porter's Lodge in front of Number 1 Stratford Place is a former porter's lodge built in 1774 by Richard Edwin. It is constructed from yellow stock brick with stone dressings and is one storey high, featuring a square plan with one bay. The west side has a semicircular arched doorway, while the flanks have blind semicircular arched windows. The lodge has a stone plinth, a stone plat band above the doorway, and a cornice with a blocking course that is topped by a sculpted stone lion in a couchant position. Above the doorway, there is a stone roundel inscribed with the words "Stratford Place" in incised serif lettering. Additionally, there is a plaque facing Oxford Street, carved in shallow relief, depicting an urn flanked by gryphons. Originally, there was a matching lodge on the opposite side, with gates situated between the two.
Local climate
Porter's Lodge in Front of Number 1 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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- 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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