30, York Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1973. Town house.
30, York Street W1
- WRENN ID
- late-zinc-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1973
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 30, York Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 278 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52072, -0.15878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 30 York Street is a terraced town house built around 1810 to 1820 as part of the Portman Estate development linked to Baker Street and Gloucester Place. The building features stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. It stands four storeys high with a basement and is three windows wide. To the right, there is a square-headed doorway with a Greek Doric columned stucco porch, which includes a panelled door and fanlight. The upper floors have recessed sash windows set beneath flat gauged red brick arches. A plat band runs along the first floor, finishing off the stuccowork. The building is topped with a crowning stucco modillion cornice and blocking course. A continuous cast iron Gothick arcade patterned balcony is present on the first floor, along with cast iron area railings featuring urn finials.
Local climate
30, York Street 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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