5, Aldford Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
5, Aldford Street W1
- WRENN ID
- tattered-minaret-solstice
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 5, Aldford Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 2AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 282 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50887, -0.15266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Aldford Street is a terraced town house built between 1892 and 1894 by the architects Balfour and Turner. It features red brick construction with Portland stone dressings and is designed in a restrained Free style Queen Anne with slight Flemish details. The building has four storeys and a basement, topped with a gabled attic, and is three windows wide.
The entrance is located in an archivolt arched enclosed porch to the left, above which is a narrow canted bay that rises three storeys. This bay is balanced on the right by a similar three-storey bay supported by foliate-capped stone columns, which have a rather Byzantine style, in front of the ground floor window. The narrow central section has a single sash window on each floor, matching the sashes in the flanking canted bays, all of which feature glazing bars and architraves.
Additional architectural details include a moulded stone string over the ground floor, a stone entablature across the second floor, and a stone balcony with a delicate wrought iron balustrade that bridges over the canted bays at the attic storey, culminating in a shaped gable. The property is complemented by good wrought iron area railings. It is part of an island block development with Mount Street, bounded by Balfour Place and Rex Place, all designed by Balfour and Turner as part of their improvements for the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair.
Local climate
5, Aldford 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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