Number 49 and 50 and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1991. Town house, office. 14 related planning applications.

Number 49 and 50 and Attached Railings

WRENN ID
white-jamb-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 February 1991
Type
Town house, office
Address
Number 49 and 50 and Attached Railings, Upper Brook Street, City of Westminster, W1K 2BX
OS grid reference
TQ 281 807
Coordinates
51.51136, -0.15434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 49 and 50 are a pair of terraced townhouses, designed to look like a single house, and are currently used as offices. They were built between 1907 and 1908 by Maurice Hulbert of Matthews, Rogers and Co for the Grosvenor Estate. The buildings are constructed from Portland stone ashlar, with a channelled finish at the ground floor level. They feature a slated mansard roof with dormers, the central ones adorned with pediments.

The houses rise to four storeys, including attics and a basement, and have a six-window range. The central entrances are round-arched and have recessed part-glazed doors. Each ground floor includes a round-arched sash window set in a shallow round-arched niche with a keystone, flanked by square-headed sashes also with keystones.

At the first floor level, there is a bracketed stone balcony with a pierced and enriched balustrade. Ionic pilasters, which are partly fluted, extend from the first to the second floor, supporting an entablature that features cartouches in the frieze and a projecting cornice with modillion blocks above the cartouches at the third floor level. The building has channelled pilaster strips at the corners that terminate with cartouches.

The sashes are enriched with architraves; the central window on the first floor of each house has a pediment, while the others have cornices. The second floor windows have enriched keystones and aprons, except for the central aprons, which are shaped and plain. The third floor features pilaster strips with recessed round-arched panels. A projecting cornice is topped with a stone balustrade.

The buildings are complemented by elaborate cast iron railings attached to the areas. Although the interiors have not been inspected, they are believed to retain panelled and decorated rooms. The houses are included for their group value.

Local climate

Number 49 and 50 and Attached Railings 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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