36, Upper Brook Street W1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A 18th century Town house. 1 related planning application.
36, Upper Brook Street W1
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Town house
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- 36, Upper Brook Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 7QJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 280 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51107, -0.15603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 36 Upper Brook Street is a Grade II* listed terraced town house built in 1737, with a well-preserved interior dating from 1737 to 1742. An attic storey was added at the same time as the adjacent No. 35. The building has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, and features three windows across its façade. The entrance has an identical Gibbs surround doorway with a deeply moulded cornice, mirroring that of No. 35. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes with red brick dressings and flat gauged arches topped with vermiculated keystones. A string course and continuous main and attic cornices connect with No. 35, as does the balcony on the first floor. The wrought iron area railings have torch finials, although the overthrow obelisks have been removed. The front of the building remains virtually unaltered.
Inside, the c.1742 interior is well preserved, featuring a front compartment staircase (with a lift inserted) but lacking back stairs on the ground floor due to the shallow site, which is occupied by a grand room at the rear. This room has a pilastered and pedimented doorcase. On the first floor, there are two rooms and a staircase leading to the upper floor, with partly curved walls above the left-hand side of the grand rear ground floor room. All main rooms retain their original panelling, marble chimney pieces, and fine compartmented plasterwork ceilings with restrained Rococo details. The main staircase also features plaster panels and reliefs on its walls, and the wrought ironwork of the staircase balustrade is partly intact.
Local climate
36, Upper Brook 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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