139, Piccadilly W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1969. Town house. 6 related planning applications.
139, Piccadilly W1
- WRENN ID
- eternal-mullion-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1969
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 139, Piccadilly W1, City of Westminster, W1J 7NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 799
- Coordinates
- 51.50385, -0.14946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 139 Piccadilly is a terraced town house built around 1760 to 1764 or 1798, which was remodeled and refaced in 1891 by R S Wornum, matching the style of the adjacent No 138. The building is constructed from Portland stone and features a slate roof. It showcases a Neo-classical revival style with elements reminiscent of Louis XVI. The house has three tall storeys, an attic storey, and a dormered mansard, sitting above a basement. It is four windows wide.
The ground floor is rusticated and features an arcade with a deep-set doorway to the right, which has a fanlight and square-headed sashes set deep within the arcade. The upper floors have architraved sash windows, with pediments above the first-floor windows. These are framed by a giant Ionic order of pilasters, topped with an entablature that continues from No 138, and a similarly pilastered attic. The original parapet balustrades have been removed, and the dormers are pedimented. The first-floor windows have bowed balustered balconettes, and there are carved relief plaques with swags beneath the second-floor windows. A stone balustrade encloses the area in front of the house. The hall retains a possibly original or more likely late 18th-century plasterwork ceiling, featuring an enriched bracket cornice.
Local climate
139, Piccadilly 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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