53-57, Upper Montagu Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1973. Terraced houses. 12 related planning applications.
53-57, Upper Montagu Street W1
- WRENN ID
- night-clay-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1973
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 53-57, Upper Montagu Street W1, City of Westminster, W1H 1SG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 276 818
- Coordinates
- 51.52096, -0.16107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of four terraced houses with shops, built around 1790 to 1800, as part of the Portman Estate development. The shops were added or altered around 1800 to 1920. They are constructed of stock brick with a stuccoed ground floor, and No. 57 has been painted. The roofs are hidden behind concealed slate coverings. The buildings are four storeys high and two windows wide. The ground floors feature wooden shop fronts with shallow, segmental, bowed windows, some of which have been altered at No. 53. These shops have brackets supporting an entablature with dentil cornices; at No. 55, the entablature has reeded pilasters and an inswept frieze. The doorways have panelled doors and fanlights. The upper floors have recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set within flat, gauged red brick arches. A stucco band marks the level of the first floor. The buildings are topped with parapets and stone copings.
Local climate
53-57, Upper 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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