Little Deans Yard is a Grade I listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. House. 14 related planning applications.
Little Deans Yard
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Deans Yard, 2 and 3, Broad Sanctuary Sw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 793
- Coordinates
- 51.4982, -0.12782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Dean's Yard includes Nos 2 and 3, which were built and remodeled between 1789 and 1790 by R.W.F. Brettingham as a symmetrical design. No. 2 is constructed from yellow stock brick with a stucco basement and has a slate roof, while No. 3 features a tiled roof. The buildings showcase a Neoclassical style with an astylar front, standing three storeys high with a basement and dormered mansards. Each house has three windows, with No. 2 serving as the original centerpiece of the composition, featuring a pediment.
The central entrances are approached by arched steps at right angles, with square-headed, architraved doorways flanked by pilasters that support bracketed cornice-hoods. The doors are panelled and topped with patterned fanlights. The windows have recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches, and the outer windows are tripartite. A stone modillion cornice and parapet adorn the top, with a lunette window located in the pediment above No. 2. Additionally, a bracketed lamp of Nico type is positioned over No. 2.
Local climate
Little Deans Yard 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 — 14 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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