26, Litchfield Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Terrace house. 1 related planning application.
26, Litchfield Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pier-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 26, Litchfield Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2H 9TZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 299 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51289, -0.12842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Litchfield Street is a terrace house built in the 1680s and refaced in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stock brick with a rusticated stucco ground floor and has a concealed roof. The building stands four storeys tall and is three windows wide. The ground floor features a house doorway to the right, framed by a stucco architrave with a cornice above, a panelled door, and a fanlight. There is also a mid-20th century display window beneath a fascia and a 18th-century doorway in a stucco architrave. The upper floors have recessed glazing bar sash windows set under flat gauged red brick arches, and there is an altered attic storey. A stucco string course runs above the ground floor, with red brick bands on the second and third floors. Inside, the house retains a late 17th-century dog leg closed string staircase with turned balusters and column newels, along with elements of panelling and cornices.
Local climate
26, Litchfield Street WC2 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 — 1 application
- 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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