15, King Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Terrace house, shop. 18 related planning applications.
15, King Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- still-terrace-dust
- 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, shop
- Address
- 15, King Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2E 8HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51139, -0.12468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 15 King Street is a terrace house and shop, built in 1773. The building is constructed of stock brick with a slate roof and demonstrates a more refined design than typical for its type, influenced by the style of James Paine. It is four storeys high with dormers in a mansard roof. The shop front on the ground floor was altered in the mid-20th century. Upper floor windows are centrally placed; the first floor has an elliptical arched recess containing a Venetian sash window with pilasters, while the second floor features a tripartite sash window with pilasters and a shallow entablature. The third floor has a segmentally arched recessed tripartite sash window. A parapet with stone coping finishes the front. The interior retains original features, including a geometrically designed staircase lit from above, located between the front and back rooms. Regency-style fireplaces and enriched pilaster cornices are also present on the plain walls.
Local climate
15, King 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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