37, Craven Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
37, Craven Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- sacred-ember-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 37, Craven Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 5NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50768, -0.12498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 37 Craven Street is a terraced town house built around 1731, with alterations made around 1792. The building features brown brick with red brick window dressings and a channelled stucco ground floor, topped with a slate roof. It stands four storeys high, with the top floor added during the 1792 alterations, and includes a 19th-century dormered mansard and a basement. The façade is three windows wide and follows a closet wing plan.
An elliptical arched doorway is located to the left, framed by a plain stucco surround, and features a recessed panelled door with a patterned fanlight above. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set beneath flat gauged red brick arches. A cornice-band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a parapet with coping above. The first floor has a cast iron geometric patterned balcony, and the area is enclosed by cast iron railings with urn finials.
Inside, the house retains many original features, including fielded panelling and cornices. There is a pilastered archway leading from the passage-hall to a panelled stairwell, which has a dog leg and a cut and carved string staircase that changes to a closed string for the upper flights. The staircase features three turned balusters per tread and columnar newels. The main rooms are adorned with wood cyma cornices, enriched with egg and tongue and leaf carving. This property is part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, which was laid out by architect Flitcroft.
Local climate
37, Craven Street WC2 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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