7, Charles Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. House. 13 related planning applications.
7, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- roaming-parapet-scarlet
- 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
- House
- Address
- 7, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 287 804
- Coordinates
- 51.5084, -0.14657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
7 Charles Street is a large Edwardian house with a Portland stone ashlar facade and a slate roof. Built in the early 20th century, it presents a tall, narrow frontage in a Free Style composition that draws on the architectural character of the 17th and 18th centuries. The house has five main storeys plus an attic set within a gable, and is two bays wide. A wide, rusticated segmental arched doorway is on the right-hand side, and above it are windows of a Venetian style, with decorative blocking and rustication, located at mezzanine levels to illuminate the main staircase. The left-hand bay features a ground-floor timber casement window with small panes, situated within a loggia, and below a first-floor canted mullioned and transomed window topped with a segmental pediment. The upper floors have mullioned casements with banded architraves. Mid-20th century casements have been added to the attic, brought forward to the reveal edges. A shallow coping defines the gable.
Local climate
7, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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