40, Montagu Square W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terraced town house. 8 related planning applications.
40, Montagu Square W1
- WRENN ID
- heavy-soffit-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 40, Montagu Square W1, City of Westminster, W1H 2LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 277 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51829, -0.15997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Montagu Square is a terraced town house built around 1810-1811, with some alterations from the mid-19th century. It was designed by J.T. Parkinson as part of the Montagu-Bryanston Square development. The building is constructed of stock brick with a stucco ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. It stands five storeys tall with a basement and is three windows wide.
On the left side, there is a semicircular arched doorway featuring a panelled door set in moulded jambs, topped with a fanlight. The ground floor includes a two-window segmental bow, above which is a mid-19th century stucco canted bay that rises two storeys and is finished with a cornice and blocking course. The upper floors have recessed sash windows, which are set under flat gauged brick arches. A plat band marks the finish of the ground floor stuccowork, while a crowning stucco cornice and blocking course complete the top of the building. A continuous cast iron balcony with a geometric pattern adorns the first floor, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Local climate
40, Montagu Square 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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