Part of Royal Institution is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. A Late C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Part of Royal Institution
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-forge-wagtail
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Part of Royal Institution, 20, Albemarle Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 4JS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 290 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50962, -0.14218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 is a terrace house that dates from the late 18th century and was remodeled internally in the early and late 19th century. It is constructed of yellow stock brick and has a slate roof. The building has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof, and it is five windows wide. The ground floor has been altered to include a three-bay shop front from the early to mid-20th century, along with a semicircular arched doorway to the right that features a fanlight, all set within a stucco surround with consoles supporting an entablature. The upper floors have sash windows without glazing bars, which are set under flat gauged arches. There is a moulded stone cornice above the second floor and a parapet with coping. The area is enclosed by cast iron railings topped with urn finials. Inside, the early 19th-century features include cornices, doorcases, a stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, and a chimneypiece that has a Wedgwood plaque originally from No 32 Soho Square, the house of Sir Joseph Banks. No 20 was incorporated into the Royal Institution in 1894.
Local climate
Part of Royal Institution 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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