81, South Audley Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terraced house. 5 related planning applications.

81, South Audley Street W1

WRENN ID
tall-gable-tallow
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
Terraced house
Address
81, South Audley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 1JJ
OS grid reference
TQ 284 803
Coordinates
51.50735, -0.15099
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 81 South Audley Street is a terraced house built in the mid to late 18th century, with early to mid 19th century alterations. The building is faced with stucco and has a slate roof. It stands five storeys high, plus a basement, and is three windows wide. The ground floor features channelled detailing, with a semicircular arched doorway on the left that includes a six-panel door and a radial glazed fanlight. To the right, there are two recessed sash windows with channelling struck to flat arches.

The upper floors are dominated by a full-height canted bay supported by Corinthian columns. The first-floor sash windows are framed by fluted pilasters with pediments, while the second floor has architraves with cornices. The third floor features eared architraves, and the top floor has semicircular arched keystone windows. The building is topped with a crowning cornice that has coupled brackets, and there are wrought iron area railings.

Local climate

81, South Audley Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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