21, Soho Square W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1978. Terrace house. 10 related planning applications.
21, Soho Square W1
- WRENN ID
- last-truss-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1978
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 21, Soho Square W1, City of Westminster, W1D 3QP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51559, -0.13153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 Soho Square is a terrace house that also serves as an office, located on a corner site. It was rebuilt between 1838 and 1840, possibly using materials from a structure dating back to around 1678 to 1679. The building features stock brick above a stone-faced ground floor that dates from the 1920s, topped with a slate roof. It has four storeys, a basement, and a mansard attic, with a facade that is four windows wide facing the square.
The ground floor includes a stone pilastered shop front with a central glazed-in porch that has a pediment. The upper floors are adorned with glazing bar sash windows set in flush frames, which have rosettes above them and are topped with flat gauged arches. A heavy dentil cornice is present over the second floor, along with a top cornice and blocking course. There is a moulded cast iron balcony across the first floor, and window guards are installed on the second floor windows. The area railings are made of scrolled cast iron. The return elevation is simpler in design.
Local climate
21, Soho Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- 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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