13 and 14, Craven Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. A C18 Town house. 13 related planning applications.
13 and 14, Craven Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- sombre-slate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 13 and 14, Craven Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 5PB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50749, -0.12513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 13 and 14 Craven Street are a pair of terraced townhouses built between 1730 and 1731, with alterations made around 1792 to 1800. The houses are constructed of brown brick with red brick window dressings and have concealed slate roofs. They are four storeys tall, with the top floor converted into a full storey around 1800, and a mansard roof added to No. 13. Each house features three windows across and has a mirrored layout similar to Nos. 11 and 12, which also have closet wings.
The ground floor is finished with channelled stucco and includes adjoining elliptical arched doorways in plain stucco surrounds, featuring recessed panelled doors within corner-blocked architraves and fanlights. The windows are recessed plate glass sashes set beneath flat gauged red brick arches, with the central top floor window being blind. A shallow cornice moulding caps the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a parapet with coping. No. 13 boasts wrought iron bowed balconettes from around 1800, along with wrought iron area railings topped with urn finials.
Inside, No. 13 retains a panelled interior similar to Nos. 11 and 12, although only the original staircase balustrade remains on the upper flights. In No. 14, the panelling is preserved only in the passage hall and stairwell, with a staircase featuring cut and carved strings and grouped balusters, akin to those in Nos. 11 and 12. These houses are part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, designed by Flitcroft.
Local climate
13 and 14, Craven Street WC2 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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