78 and 80, Great Portland Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Flats, shop. 9 related planning applications.
78 and 80, Great Portland Street W1
- WRENN ID
- tall-ember-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Flats, shop
- Address
- 78 and 80, Great Portland Street W1, City of Westminster, W1W 7NN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 290 815
- Coordinates
- 51.5184, -0.14173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 78 and 80 on Great Portland Street is a corner block of flats and shops, built in 1904 by W.H. White. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features slate roofs. It showcases a Free Flemish-Jacobean style and stands five storeys tall. Both street fronts are four bays wide and include an octagonal corner turret. The ground floor has altered pilastered shop fronts, while the upper floors feature mullioned-transomed windows with casement lights. The parapet along Great Portland Street is raised in the centre with a shaped gable, and there is a full-height canted bay that is off centre to Riding House Street.
Local climate
78 and 80, Great Portland 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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