39 to 45, St James's Place is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1969. A Georgian Terraced houses. 9 related planning applications.
39 to 45, St James's Place
- WRENN ID
- broken-tin-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1969
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 39 to 45, St James's Place, Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1NS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50579, -0.13933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 to 45 St James's Place are terraced houses built around 1685, with No 39 constructed in the early 19th century. The buildings are made of stuccoed brick and have slate roofs, except for Nos 42 to 44, which have tiled roofs. Nos 39 to 42 are four storeys tall, with a basement for Nos 39 and 40, while Nos 43 to 45 are three storeys high and feature dormered mansards. No 39 has a two-bay front, while the others have three bays each. The windows are recessed and nearly flush framed sash windows with architraves. The doorways are square-headed to the left, except for No 39, which has a semicircular arched fanlight doorway. There are plat bands between the floors, some with cornices over the second floor, and parapets with copings. Nos 42 and 44 still have rear closet wings.
Inside, the houses retain some original panelling and box cornices. The dog leg closed string turned baluster staircases are best preserved at Nos 40 and 44, while No 45 features an early 18th-century staircase wing. Additionally, there is a wall-mounted Windsor gas lantern on the front elevation of No 44 and another on the rear elevation of No 39.
Local climate
39 to 45, St James's Place 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
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- 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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