2, John Adam Street WC2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A C18 Town house. 5 related planning applications.
2, John Adam Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- lost-granite-briar
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 2, John Adam Street WC2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50955, -0.12241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 John Adam Street is a terraced town house built around 1772-1774 by Robert Adam. The building features brown brick with a rusticated stucco ground floor and a slate roof. It has three storeys, an attic storey, and a basement, with a width of three windows that continues the return of No. 18 Adam Street.
The ground floor includes a semicircular arched entrance on the right, which is adorned with vermiculated voussoirs and jambs, a panelled door, and a patterned fanlight. The windows are recessed sashes with vermiculated heads and keystones. The upper floors also have recessed sashes set beneath flat gauged arches. There is a bracketed cornice above the ground floor and a main cornice over the second floor, with a parapeted attic. Additionally, cast iron balconettes are present on the second floor, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Inside, the house boasts a good interior featuring a geometrical staircase with wrought iron balusters, along with friezes and cornices. This property is part of the Adam Brothers' Adelphi development.
Local climate
2, John Adam Street WC2 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 — 5 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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