Wilson House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terrace. 9 related planning applications.
Wilson House
- WRENN ID
- tired-keystone-sage
- 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
- Terrace
- Address
- Wilson House, 38-76, Sussex Gardens W2, City of Westminster, W2 1UF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 270 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51715, -0.16983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilson House is a terrace building from the early 19th century, located on Sussex Gardens in the City of Westminster. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with a stucco ground floor and outer bays featuring channelled stucco. The building has a stucco cornice and an additional cornice at the parapet, rising to four storeys and a basement.
The design includes a 12-bay central section that breaks forward, flanked by 8-bay wings and further 6-bay breakforwards on each side. The central bays feature round-arched arcading with an off-centre entrance and round-arched sash windows, some of which have glazing bars and radial glazing in the heads. Other entrances on the ground floor have been replaced with sash windows.
On the first floor, there are iron balconies, and the central breakforward has sashes with glazing bars, architraves, and hoods supported by consoles. The 8-bay wings display flat gauged brick arches, while the outer 6-bay sections have architraves with hoods and pediments above the outer windows. The upper floors mainly consist of sashes with glazing bars, and there is a cornice at the third floor level. Iron railings enclose the basement.
Originally known as Grand Junction Road, Sussex Gardens was an important part of the original layout of Bayswater.
Local climate
Wilson House 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 — 9 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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