49, Harley Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Town house. 11 related planning applications.
49, Harley Street W1
- WRENN ID
- third-rampart-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 49, Harley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51863, -0.14707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 49 Harley Street is a corner terraced town house built in 1901 by F.M. Elgood, showcasing a fine red brick exterior with Portland stone dressings and banding, topped with a slate roof. The building is designed in a Free Queen Anne style and consists of four storeys, a basement, and a dormer set within a steeply pitched mansard roof.
The main facade is two windows wide, featuring a balanced asymmetry with a narrower entrance bay on the right that is corbelled out through the first and second floors. The entrance includes a recessed semicircular arched porch made of stone blocks, with voussoirs and a keystone that rise to a corbel table cornice. To the left, the ground floor window is advanced and features a tripartite sash within a Gibbs surround, with spaced voussoirs and a keystone that extends to a cornice, which serves as the base for a shallow stone bowed window on the first floor, flanked by blocked Ionic columns, and topped with a cornice and shallow semi-dome. The second floor has a recessed two-light sash window with a cornice above it.
The corbelled entrance bay contains a small leaded light Venetian window on the first floor and a leaded two-light casement on the second floor. Above the second floor, there is a bracketed cornice with a parapet over the entrance bay. The top floor features three architraved windows. The eaves are overhanging and supported by wrought iron brackets, and there is a corniced dormer. The property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings with scroll finials and squat, bulbous stone column piers topped with ball finials. The plain return of the building has a carefully arranged asymmetrical arrangement of windows.
Local climate
49, Harley 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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