26, Hill Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. House. 7 related planning applications.
26, Hill Street W1
- WRENN ID
- ruined-corner-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26, Hill Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5NN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50875, -0.14873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Hill Street is a terrace house built around 1748-1750. It is constructed of red brick and features a slated mansard roof. The building has four storeys, a basement, and dormers, with two windows on the front. There is a cornice and blocking course, along with a main stone cornice at the third floor level. The ground floor is finished in rusticated stucco, and the recessed sash windows have gauged flat brick arches with original glazing bars. The entrance includes a round-arched, recessed doorway with panelled jambs, a cornice-head, a radial fanlight, and a half-glazed door. A continuous wrought iron balcony is present at the first floor level, complemented by cast iron railings topped with urn finials. There is also a bracketed bust on the first floor.
Local climate
26, Hill Street W1 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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