77-81, Portland Place W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
77-81, Portland Place W1
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-cupola-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 77-81, Portland Place W1, City of Westminster, W1B 1QU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52246, -0.14639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 77 to 81 Portland Place are a row of large terraced houses built around 1780 by James Adam as part of the speculative Portland Estate development with his brothers. The houses are constructed of stock brick with channelled stucco on the ground floors and feature slate roofs. The plain elevations are a simplified version of the nearby No 75 and are slightly recessed from it, matching the even-numbered Nos 92 to 96. The buildings rise four storeys with a basement and dormered mansards, each front being three windows wide.
To the left, there are semicircular arched doorways with double panelled doors, sidelights, and cornice doorheads beneath fanlights. The upper floors have recessed sashes set under flat gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. The first floor features cast iron balconies with Gothick patterns, and there are cast iron railings with plumbed spikes in the area. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
77-81, Portland Place 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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