1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Mews range. 6 related planning applications.
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- inner-railing-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Mews range
- Address
- 1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1 (See details for further address information), 85a, Duke Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 5PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51286, -0.15031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This mews range, numbers 1, 1A, and 2 Duke's Yard (including numbers 85 and 85A Duke Street), was built between 1900 and 1902 by Eustace Balfour and Thackeray Turner. It is constructed of red brick with Portland stone accents, has a tiled roof, and exhibits a sophisticated yet restrained architectural style inspired by the late Philip Webb.
The building is two storeys high with attics, and features a 15-window range. Coach house and garage doors are articulated with stone pilasters. The first floor has a series of flush-framed sash windows, with shallow brick pilasters defining bays above, culminating in a modillion cornice and a stone-faced attic with dormer windows projecting into the roof.
The return on the left side of the building features glazed brick facing on the ground floor and a lower, gabled wing with a square-headed entrance and overlight. The return on the right side presents a shaped and coped gable with a large central stack, a lower wing, and a reproduction 18th-century pedimented doorcase framing a segmental arched doorway with a panelled door – this is the entrance to number 85A. Ground floor glazing on this return is also brick-faced.
The row continues with numbers 85 and 85A Duke Street, which are built in a similar style but incorporate a shopfront dating from approximately 1910.
Local climate
1, 1A AND 2, DUKE'S YARD W1 (See details for further address information) 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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- 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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