74, Brook Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Terrace house. 6 related planning applications.
74, Brook Street W1
- WRENN ID
- first-plinth-wagtail
- 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
- Terrace house
- Address
- 74, Brook Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 5ED
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51268, -0.1491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 74 Brook Street is a terrace house built in 1725 and altered in the early 19th century. It has four storeys, a basement, and a slated mansard attic with dormers. The façade features three windows and decorative plat bands, including a guilloche pattern on the second floor. There is a main cornice at the third floor level and a moulded cornice on the parapet, topped with coping. An early 19th-century continuous cast iron balcony adorns the first floor. The entrance is an early 19th-century round-headed doorway with sidelights and an ornamental radial glazed fanlight. The windows are revealed glazing bar sashes, with those on the ground floor fitted with sliding louvred shutters. The property also has area railings with urn finials.
Local climate
74, Brook 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 — 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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