55, Curzon Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1981. House. 9 related planning applications.
55, Curzon Street W1
- WRENN ID
- small-lintel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- 55, Curzon Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 8PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 288 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50728, -0.14537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 55 Curzon Street is a terrace house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with some alterations. It features darkened brick and a stuccoed ground floor, topped with a slate roof. The building stands four storeys high, including a basement and a dormered mansard, and is two windows wide. The doorway is located to the left and has a semicircular arch with pilastered jambs and a fanlight; the ground floor windows have been altered. The upper floors contain recessed glazing bar sash windows set beneath flat gauged brick arches. A stucco plat band runs along the first floor, with a stucco cornice at the parapet topped with coping. There are cast iron balconettes on the first floor and cast iron railings in the area.
Inside, the house features a staircase from around 1800, which has carved tread ends, square balusters, and a dado. The ground floor rooms retain their cornices, moulded friezes, and alcoves flanking the chimney breast, with the rear room having a bow end. The first floor was completely refurbished around 1900 in Rococo style, with walls, doors, and ceilings featuring a coved cornice decorated with raised borders, shaped panels adorned with flowers, fruit, ribbons, and musical trophies of varied designs, along with a cast iron chimney piece from the same period.
Local climate
55, Curzon Street W1 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 — 9 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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