17, Greek Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terrace house. 2 related planning applications.
17, Greek Street W1
- WRENN ID
- low-cloister-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 17, Greek Street W1, City of Westminster, W1D 4DR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51406, -0.13061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 Greek Street is a terrace house dating from the late 17th century, which has been altered and features a well-preserved early 19th-century shop front while retaining several original elements. The building is constructed of stock brick with red brick details and has a concealed roof. It stands five storeys tall with a basement, with the top two floors being early 19th-century additions. The façade is three windows wide.
The ground floor showcases an intact early 19th-century shop front, with the house door to the left likely dating from the late 17th or 18th century. This door features eight fielded panels and is framed by slender, flanking reeded pilasters. The display windows on either side of the doorway project on iron brackets and retain their glazing bars. The shop front is topped with a continuous fascia that has inswept ends and a moulded cornice.
On the upper floors, there are recessed sash windows with flat gauged arches, and the windows on the first and second floors retain original red bricks. A stucco plat band runs above the first floor, and there is a 19th-century cornice above the second floor, topped with a parapet that has coping. The cast iron area railings, which are contemporary with the shop front, feature a braced square panel pattern.
Inside, the building retains part of its original passage panelling and a dog leg staircase typical of around 1730, although it has been altered. The compartment walls rising to the first-floor vestibule still feature late 17th-century bolection panelling. The front room on the first floor has an enriched cornice, while the second floor, which includes late 17th-century secondary stairs, retains dado panelling and chimneypieces.
Local climate
17, Greek 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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- 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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