50, Greek Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. House. 2 related planning applications.

50, Greek Street W1

WRENN ID
tangled-loggia-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1958
Type
House
Address
50, Greek Street W1, City of Westminster, W1D 4EQ
OS grid reference
TQ 297 811
Coordinates
51.51406, -0.13109
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 50 Greek Street is a terrace house built around 1736. It features stained brick with a stuccoed ground floor and a slate roof. The building has three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard, and is three windows wide, though it is not as spacious as the adjacent No. 48. The entrance is to the left and has a mid-20th century door set back in the original panelled reveal, framed by a doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters and an entablature that includes a triglyph frieze, although the cornice is missing. The upper floors have recessed metal casements with flat gauged arches, except for the central first-floor window, which features a semicircular head with stone imposts and a key block. There is a plat band above the ground floor and a rendered, likely brick, cornice below the parapet with coping. Flanking the steps leading up to the door is a section of original area railings with large urn finials.

Inside, the closet wing and rooms on the ground and first floors are lined with boldly moulded panelling and dentil box cornices. Doric columns flank the recess of the front room on the ground floor, and fluted Doric pilasters are found in the passage hall. The dog leg stairs have carved cut strings, turned balusters, and column newels, but the usual closed string is present from the first-floor landing.

Local climate

50, Greek 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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