26, MANCHESTER SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
26, MANCHESTER SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cloister-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 26, MANCHESTER SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information), 9, Hinde Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51676, -0.1518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Manchester Square is an end of terrace town house built around 1776 to 1788 as part of the Duke of Manchester's development on Portman Estate land. It is located on the southeast side of the square and is adjacent to Nos. 1 to 3. The building features brown brick with a stuccoed ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and is three windows wide facing the square, with a six-window return to Hinde Street.
The Hinde Street front has a semicircular arched doorway flanked by inset Doric columns and topped with a fanlight. The upper floors have recessed sash windows, some of which have glazing bars, set under flat gauged arches. There are stucco plat bands and a stone-coped parapet. The property is also enclosed by cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Local climate
26, MANCHESTER SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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