50, Albemarle Street W1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Terraced town house. 2 related planning applications.
50, Albemarle Street W1
- WRENN ID
- idle-passage-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 50, Albemarle Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 4BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50796, -0.14108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 Albemarle Street is a terraced town house built around 1710-1720. It features a stuccoed front and a slate roof, rising four storeys with a basement and a dormered mansard. The façade is three windows wide, with a doorway to the right that has a stone doorcase topped with a moulded cornice hood supported by carved consoles. The windows are revealed segmental arched sash types, lacking glazing bars, and are adorned with keystones that extend to the plat bands above. There are plat bands between each floor and a bracketed main cornice. The first floor has wrought iron balconettes dating from around 1800.
Inside, the house retains much of its original interior, including doorcases, dados, and cornices. A notable feature is the fine staircase, which has an open string with carved brackets at the tread ends, twisted balusters, and a mahogany handrail that sweeps to columnar newels. This house was the original residence of John Murray, the founder of the publishing company of the same name, and it has several literary associations.
Local climate
50, Albemarle Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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