20, Charles Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Terraced town house. 4 related planning applications.
20, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- low-newel-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 20, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50758, -0.14847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Charles Street is a terraced town house built around 1750 to 1753. The building is finished in stucco and underwent alterations in the mid to late 19th century. It features three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof, with a width of five windows. The ground floor is elaborately designed, including an enclosed porch on the right side, with rusticated and vermiculated surrounds to the windows, which are sash windows without glazing bars. The first-floor windows are topped with pediments. A main entablature includes a guilloche frieze and a bracketed cornice, while the parapet is adorned with cast iron cresting. The building has polygonal dormers and highly ornate wrought iron railings surrounding the basement area and the first-floor balcony. A plaque from the London County Council commemorates the residence of the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Local climate
20, Charles 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 — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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