Apartment 5, St James' Palace is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Post-medieval Apartment, residence. 2 related planning applications.
Apartment 5, St James' Palace
- WRENN ID
- noble-clay-equinox
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Apartment, residence
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Apartment 5, St James' Palace, Stable Yard Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50428, -0.13944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apartment 5 at St James' Palace is a Grade I listed building that was originally part of the palace stables, constructed in 1661 and later altered by architect Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1716 and 1717. The building features a brown brick exterior with red brick dressings and has leaded and slated roofs. It is two storeys high, having been heightened in the early 19th century, and is 12 bays wide. The ground floor includes an arcade added by Hawksmoor, which features three semicircular arched windows at the west end. The first-floor windows are set within semicircular arched panels. The end bays of the front are accentuated as square turrets topped with concave-pyramid leaded cupolas. The building has a parapet with stone coping and a string course at the first floor.
Local climate
Apartment 5, St James' Palace 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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