St Patrick's Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Presbytery. 7 related planning applications.

St Patrick's Presbytery

WRENN ID
over-pier-burdock
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
Presbytery
Address
St Patrick's Presbytery, 21a, Soho Square W1, City of Westminster, W1D 4NR
OS grid reference
TQ 297 812
Coordinates
51.51536, -0.13142
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Patrick's Presbytery is a former terrace house built between 1791 and 1793. It is constructed of stock brick with a stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. The building has four storeys and a basement. The doorway to the left includes a panelled door with sidelights and a radial glazed semicircular fanlight above, while the right side has plain recessed glazing bar sashes. The upper floors are adorned with recessed glazing bar sashes set within shallow early 19th-century stucco architraves. A parapet with coping tops the building, and there are wrought iron ornamental bowed balconettes on the first floor. The original area railings feature urn finial standards. At the rear, there is a slightly bowed window wall.

Inside, the interior remains largely intact, showcasing a semicircular archway that opens from the hall to the staircase, which is made of timber and features a geometric design. The main rooms exhibit restrained enrichment, with marble chimney pieces on the ground floor and a wooden chimney piece in the first-floor rear room, elaborately composed with slender Corinthian columns and an enriched frieze with relief carvings on the tablet blocks.

Local climate

St Patrick's Presbytery 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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