40 and 42, Tavistock Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. House. 13 related planning applications.
40 and 42, Tavistock Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- second-chamber-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40 and 42, Tavistock Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2E 7PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51227, -0.11991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42 Tavistock Street are a pair of end-of-terrace houses with shops, rebuilt or refaced around 1830 to 1840. They are constructed of stock brick and topped with a slate roof, featuring four storeys and a dormered mansard. Each house has a front that is two windows wide, with a three-window return to Catherine Street. The original wooden shop front includes a panelled and glazed door, flanked by display windows and returned, supported by pilasters that carry an entablature-fascia with a projecting cornice. The upper floors feature recessed glazing bar sash windows set within stucco architraves. There is a stucco sill band at the third floor, along with a crowning stucco cornice and blocking course.
Local climate
40 and 42, Tavistock 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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