69, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
69, Wimpole Street W1
- WRENN ID
- white-rampart-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 69, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8AS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 815
- Coordinates
- 51.5181, -0.14841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 69 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built in the 1770s as part of the Portland Estate development, with mid-19th century alterations to the front. The building is faced with stucco, featuring a ground floor that is channelled with alternating bands of vermiculation, and it has a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and is two windows wide.
To the left is a square-headed doorway with a keystone, which includes a panelled door and a fanlight above. The ground floor has a tripartite sash window, while the upper floors feature recessed sash windows set in architrave surrounds. The first-floor windows have pulvinated friezes and cornices supported by consoles, while the windows above are adorned with eared architraves. A stucco balcony supported by ornamental brackets and featuring Victorian enriched scrolled ironwork balustrade is located on the first floor. There is a sill band at the second floor and a crowning cornice with a blocking course. The property is enclosed by cast iron spearhead area railings.
Inside, the house retains several original features, including a wrought iron balustraded stone staircase, some plasterwork, and marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
69, Wimpole 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 — 3 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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