22, Frith Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1979. Terrace house. 2 related planning applications.
22, Frith Street W1
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gravel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1979
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 22, Frith Street W1, City of Westminster, W1D 5AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51343, -0.13121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 22 Frith Street is a terrace house rebuilt around 1900. It features red brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The building stands four storeys tall with an attic and has a single bay front. The ground floor, which is rendered and dates from the mid-20th century, includes a shop. A broad segmental arched window on the first floor is surrounded by rusticated stone, while the second and third floors have narrower three-light sash windows. At the top, there is a stone-faced segmental pedimented dormer. The house is adorned with a mutule cornice and framing pilaster strips. It is listed for its historical association with J.L. Baird, who used an attic laboratory here from 1924 to 1926 to demonstrate television transmission on January 27, 1926.
Local climate
22, Frith 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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