13, St James's Place SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. House. 1 related planning application.

13, St James's Place SW1

WRENN ID
gilded-plaster-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1958
Type
House
Address
13, St James's Place SW1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1NP
OS grid reference
TQ 291 801
Coordinates
51.50567, -0.14018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 13 is a terraced house built around 1781, constructed from yellow stock brick with a slate roof. The building has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof, and it is three windows wide. The ground floor features semi-circular arched windows and a doorway on the left, which includes a radial glazed fanlight and a six-panel door. The upper floors have revealed sash windows without glazing bars, set under flat gauged arches. A stone modillion bracket cornice is located above the second floor, with an enriched plat band above the first floor. There is a geometric pattern cast iron balcony across the first floor, along with wrought iron area railings and an overthrow with a lampholder. The interior includes ceilings and friezes in the Adam style, as well as a geometric staircase with stick balusters.

Local climate

13, St James's Place 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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