30 and 32, Old Queen Street SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 13 related planning applications.

30 and 32, Old Queen Street SW1

WRENN ID
empty-merlon-gorse
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
30 and 32, Old Queen Street SW1, City of Westminster, SW1H 9HP
OS grid reference
TQ 298 796
Coordinates
51.50093, -0.1313
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 30 and 32 Old Queen Street are a pair of terraced town houses built around 1774 to 1780. They are constructed from yellow stock brick and feature slate roofs, standing five storeys tall with a basement. Each house is two windows wide and has a rusticated stucco facing on the ground floor, with entrances located to the right and left. The porches have Doric porticos, with No 32 featuring a two-storey portico and a rectangular bay window on the first floor. Both houses have square-headed doorways with double panelled doors and fanlights. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches, and No 32 includes a canted bay window on the first floor. No 30 is distinguished by a Greek Key patterned plat band on the first floor, a brick "triglyph" frieze below the fourth-floor sill course, and a parapet with coping. The cast iron area railings have urn finials. The rear elevations facing St James's Park feature three-window bows with a stucco Greek Key frieze below the top floor and delicate iron balconies in an S pattern. The interiors include elegant stone geometrical staircases with delicate wrought iron balustrades, as well as fine plasterwork and neoclassical marble chimney pieces in No 32.

Local climate

30 and 32, Old Queen Street SW1 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 2009
  • 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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