10, Duchess Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Mews building. 9 related planning applications.

10, Duchess Street W1

WRENN ID
quiet-passage-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Mews building
Address
10, Duchess Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 9AB
OS grid reference
TQ 287 816
Coordinates
51.5189, -0.14529
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 10 Duchess Street is a mews building, now part of the British Medical Association, constructed around 1769-71 by Robert Adam as the stable-coach house for Chandos House on Queen Anne Street. The building has been quite sympathetically altered around 1924 by Arthur Bolton. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, showcasing a distinctive neo-classical style. The structure has three storeys and is three bays wide, with the central bay being taller. There is a central carriage archway with a channelled surround and flanking piers. Above the first and second floors, the central section is flanked by pairs of pilasters in the Tower of the Winds order, which support an enriched frieze, a dentil cornice, and a parapet adorned with dies featuring oval rosettes. The lower outer bays have windows on two storeys and are topped with anthemion iron cresting. The entire composition is flanked by panelled piers that are crowned by sphinxes.

Local climate

10, Duchess 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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