76 and 78, Wigmore Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Chambers, flats, commercial. 6 related planning applications.
76 and 78, Wigmore Street W1
- WRENN ID
- waning-ledge-swift
- 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
- Chambers, flats, commercial
- Address
- 76 and 78, Wigmore Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51645, -0.15066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 76 and 78 Wigmore Street is a building dating from 1906 to 1907, designed by Treadwell and Martin. It features chambers or flats with a corner shop and has been refurbished with renewed shop fronts in 1984-85. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. It is designed in a Free Style "Jacobethan" manner, characterized by a strong vertical emphasis and imaginative detailing at the corner, typical of the architects' work. The building stands five storeys tall, including gabled attics, and is three windows wide.
At the corner, there is a broad canted bay and splay leading to Jason Court, with a four-bay return. The shop front has been renewed and is plain, featuring capped bracket ends to the fascia that extends over the corner entrance. Above the shop front, a canted stone bay rises through the first and second floors, showcasing mullioned-transomed leaded casements and topped with a plain parapet, which has a lunette above on the third floor. This bay is set between flanking piers, which are banded at the third floor level and rise to decorative elements at the parapet, including a five-light leaded casement. The shaped gable above features lozenge patterning in the tympanum.
To the left, there are mullioned transomed casements with linked hood moulds on the first floor. The corner splay is capped by a small, slated, conical-roofed oriel on the fourth floor, which has enriched panels beneath it. The shaped gable on the return to Jason Court has similar but simpler details.
Local climate
76 and 78, Wigmore Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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