139-141, Park Lane W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Block of flats. 12 related planning applications.
139-141, Park Lane W1
- WRENN ID
- idle-fireplace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Block of flats
- Address
- 139-141, Park Lane W1, City of Westminster, W1K 7AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 279 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51296, -0.15771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
139-141 Park Lane is a block of flats built between 1913 and 1919 by Frank Verity. It features Portland stone ashlar with a rusticated ground floor, constructed on a steel frame, and has a slate roof. The building occupies a prominent corner site at Marble Arch, designed in Verity's sophisticated Parisian Beaux Arts Louis XVI style. It stands seven storeys tall, including a mezzanine and a dormered mansard roof.
The facade facing Park Lane has eleven windows, with the two end bays slightly advanced, single bay inset quadrant corners, and three window returns to Oxford Street and North Row. The channelled ground floor includes a central portal supported by Doric columns. The ground floor windows are three-light casements, deeply recessed under segmental arches. The mezzanine windows are set on a sill course and flanked by large elongated console brackets that support an iron balcony on the first floor, which has stone dies.
The windows on the first, second, and third floors are vertically linked within the same reveal and topped with cornice lintels over the third floor. The fourth floor windows echo the mezzanine style with similar consoles supporting a cornice-balcony. A deep projecting cornice crowns the attic storey, which is topped with a cast iron balustrade. The advanced end bays feature stone-faced cornices and blocked upper attics, as do the returns.
Local climate
139-141, Park Lane W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 12 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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