42 and 44, Hill Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town mansion. 7 related planning applications.
42 and 44, Hill Street W1
- WRENN ID
- sheer-beam-indigo
- 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 mansion
- Address
- 42 and 44, Hill Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50809, -0.14991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 42 and 44 Hill Street is a town mansion built in 1919 by W Ernest Lord and Mewes and Davis for the first Viscount Furness, with construction delayed by the First World War. The building features handmade red brick with sparse stone dressings and a slate roof, showcasing a Neo-Georgian facade that spans 50 feet. It includes glazing bar sashes and wrought iron balconies. The garden front is symmetrical, highlighted by a full-height central bow. The grand interior, likely designed by Mewes and Davis, features an entrance hall lined with polished stone and a staircase with a Tijou-style wrought iron balustrade. The ground floor room, originally the library, has carved oak panelling and built-in bookcases. On the first floor, there are two large rooms, one adorned with early Georgian-style pine panelling and the other featuring reset French boiseries and marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
42 and 44, Hill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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