71, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 1 related planning application.
71, Wimpole Street W1
- WRENN ID
- worn-pier-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 71, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8AW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 815
- Coordinates
- 51.518, -0.14838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 71 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built in the 1770s as part of the Portland Estate development. It is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and has a slate roof. The building has four storeys and a dormered mansard above a basement, featuring two windows in width. To the left, there is a square-headed architraved doorway with a later 19th-century door and a plain fanlight. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor, and there is a moulded stucco string at the second floor, topped by a parapet with coping. The property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Inside, some original features remain, including an iron balustered staircase, delicate plasterwork, and chimneypieces.
Local climate
71, Wimpole 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 — 1 application
- 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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