Numbers 23 Albemarle Street and 16a, 16b and 16c Grafton Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Shop. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 23 Albemarle Street and 16a, 16b and 16c Grafton Street
- WRENN ID
- last-chimney-bracken
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- Numbers 23 Albemarle Street and 16a, 16b and 16c Grafton Street, Albemarle Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 4BS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 806
- Coordinates
- 51.51012, -0.14276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 23 Albemarle Street and 16A, 16B, and 16C Grafton Street, is a purpose-built shop and chamber complex dating from 1896. It is constructed of hard red brick and terracotta, showcasing a Jacobean style with some Art Nouveau Renaissance detailing. The prominent five-storey corner block features five windows facing Albemarle Street and a corner turret, along with five windows on Grafton Street. The ground floor has an arched treatment for the shops, with windows that project in part as rectangular bays topped with glazed half barrel vaults. There are two three-storey segmental and canted oriel bays on Albemarle Street, while the corner turret is corbelled and topped with a lead dome. Grafton Street also has similar oriels, although one is only two storeys high. Above the doorway on Albemarle Street, there is a shallow relief Art Nouveau terracotta panel. The columns of the corner turret are decorated with more conventional Renaissance motifs on their shafts.
Local climate
Numbers 23 Albemarle Street and 16a, 16b and 16c Grafton Street 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 — 1 application
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