41 and 43, Wardour Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1974. A Edwardian Commercial premises. 3 related planning applications.
41 and 43, Wardour Street W1
- WRENN ID
- tenth-window-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1974
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Period
- Edwardian
- Address
- 41 and 43, Wardour Street W1, City of Westminster, W1D 6PT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51148, -0.13238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Commercial premises dating to 1904-05, designed by H.M. Wakeley. The building is constructed of red brick with elaborate green and buff stone dressings, topped with a slate roof, and is designed in a Free Style Jacobean manner. It is four storeys high with an attic, and three windows wide. The ground floor features an elaborate central doorway with a mask and consoles. The jambs include metal cartouches commemorating that Sarah Bernhardt laid the foundation stone in 1905. Shop windows are positioned to the left and right, with an entablature-fascia above, flanked by pilasters with garlanded caps and giant brackets supporting large urns. Upper floor windows are treated as through-storey canted bays with shaped dividers to casements, set back within full-height recesses, and topped by segmental pediments broken by balconettes. Behind these are pedimented dormers. A bowed central arch on the first floor features cartouches on the dividing columns, inscribed "Established 1833" and "Rebuilt 1904." Three segmental windows sit below a shaped eaves cornice. A Greater London Council plaque commemorates Willy Clarkson, a theatrical wigmaker, who worked from 1861-1954.
Local climate
41 and 43, Wardour 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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