26, Dorset Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.
26, Dorset Street W1
- WRENN ID
- ancient-baluster-brook
- 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
- Terraced house
- Address
- 26, Dorset Street W1, City of Westminster, W1U 8AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 278 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51901, -0.15805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Dorset Street is a terraced house built around 1800 to 1820, part of the Gloucester Place development. It features stock brick construction with a stuccoed ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. The building stands four storeys tall with a basement and is two windows wide. To the right, there is a semicircular arched doorway with a panelled door that has a reeded head and a fanlight above. The windows are recessed sashes, set under flat and segmental gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor, and there is a crowning stucco cornice with a blocking course. The first-floor windows have original wrought iron balconettes, and the property is enclosed by cast iron area railings topped with urn finials. This listing is included for its group value only.
Local climate
26, Dorset 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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