1a, Duke Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
1a, Duke Street W1
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-glass-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 1a, Duke Street W1, City of Westminster, W1U 3EB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51639, -0.15228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1A Duke Street is a Grade II listed corner terraced town house that dates from around 1776 to 1788, part of the Duke of Manchester's development. The building features a brown brick exterior with a channelled stucco ground floor and a concealed slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a width of four windows, two of which are blind, along with a three-window return facing Manchester Square.
The doorway, located in the second bay from the right, is square-headed and includes a panelled door with a patterned fanlight above. The ground floor windows to the right have been adapted for use as shop display windows. The upper floors feature recessed sash windows to the right and blind windows to the left, all set beneath flat gauged arches.
On the Manchester Square side, the building has recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, with plat bands on the first and second floors, a cornice above the second floor, and a stone-coped parapet. The original first-floor balcony is made of cast iron with a geometric pattern. The plat band on the first floor is the only one that extends to the Duke Street front, which also has a stone-coped parapet. Additionally, there are cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Local climate
1a, Duke 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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