4, St James's Street SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terrace house. 6 related planning applications.

4, St James's Street SW1

WRENN ID
long-chamber-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Terrace house
Address
4, St James's Street SW1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1EF
OS grid reference
TQ 293 801
Coordinates
51.50563, -0.13812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 4 St James's Street is a terrace house built around 1731-32, with some later alterations. It features a brown brick exterior and a slate roof, rising four storeys with a dormered mansard. The house is three windows wide. The ground floor was altered around 1890, and it has recessed sash windows on the upper floors without glazing bars, all set under flat gauged arches. The building has a parapet with coping, and the flank wall of the ground floor, which leads to a passageway to Pickering Place, is adorned with wooden panelling.

Local climate

4, St James's Street SW1 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 2016
  • 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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