2, Charles Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
2, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- endless-tower-sedge
- 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
- 2, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 287 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50861, -0.14595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 Charles Street is a house, likely built in the 18th century with some alterations from the early 19th century. The building is finished in stucco and has a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard roof.
The entrance is located to the right and features a doorway with an architrave case and a rectangular fanlight with radial glazing. The ground floor has a central tripartite window with 19th-century sash lights that do not have glazing bars. Above, there is a full-width canted bay on the first and second floors, supported by two cast iron columns with fan spandrel braces. The sash windows in this bay also lack glazing bars and are set within architraves that have pediments on the first floor. Additionally, there are cast iron area railings in front of the property.
Local climate
2, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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