226, Strand WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 2001. Shop, office. 2 related planning applications.
226, Strand WC2
- WRENN ID
- south-eave-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 2001
- Type
- Shop, office
- Address
- 226, Strand WC2, City of Westminster, WC2R 1BA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51339, -0.11235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
226 The Strand, located in the City of Westminster, is a house that has been converted into a shop with offices above. It was built around 1820 and features a narrow five-storey front made of stock brick, with stone cills and parapet coping. The building has 6/6 sash windows on the fourth, third, and upper part of the second floors, while the first floor has large plate glass openings. The ground floor has a modern shop front. An original staircase with columnar newel posts remains intact from the second floor upwards. This building is a rare example of a pre-Victorian structure on the Strand, still situated on a narrow burgage plot. In 1840, it was home to the Temple Bar Tea Warehouse.
Local climate
226, Strand WC2 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 2017
- 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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