18, Montagu Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terraced town house. 2 related planning applications.
18, Montagu Street W1
- WRENN ID
- half-floor-owl
- 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
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 18, Montagu Street W1, City of Westminster, W1H 7EX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 278 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51631, -0.15904
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 Montagu Street is a terraced town house built around 1790-1800 as part of the Portman Estate development, which extends from Great Cumberland Place. The building is constructed of stock brick and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a dormered mansard roof. The façade is four windows wide, with a segmental arched doorway located in the second bay from the left. This doorway is framed by a stucco porch supported by Doric columns and includes a panelled door with sidelights, topped by a doorhead with shallow consoles and a radial patterned fanlight. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set beneath flat gauged red brick arches. The building has a parapet with stone coping and a continuous wrought iron balcony on the first floor, along with cast iron area railings that feature urn finials.
Local climate
18, Montagu Street W1 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- 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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