2, Queen Anne's Gate SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Town house. 13 related planning applications.
2, Queen Anne's Gate SW1
- WRENN ID
- old-banister-rye
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 2, Queen Anne's Gate SW1, City of Westminster, SW1H 9AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 297 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50082, -0.13186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Queen Anne's Gate is an end of terrace townhouse built between 1825 and 1830. It features a stucco facade and a slate roof. The main front faces St James's Park, while the entrance front is on Old Queen Street, accessible by Cockpit Steps. The building has four storeys and a dormered mansard, with the basement appearing as a lower ground floor on the Park side.
The entrance front has four windows, while the Park front has five. There is a shallow enclosed stuccoed Doric pilastered porch with an entablature located in the second bay from the left. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes. The ground floor has an entablature above it, and the first floor features a pseudo-parapet with coping that serves as a sill course. A crowning cornice and blocking course complete the top of the building. The area railings are made of cast iron with a plumbed spike design.
On the St James's Park front, there is a central break with a canted bay at the basement and ground floor levels, and a three-window bow at the first floor. The second and third floors of the break are flanked by pairs of quoin pilasters and topped with a deeply moulded pediment that contains a lunette window. The windows here are also recessed glazing bar sashes. A balustraded balcony spans the ground floor, while a delicate cast iron shallow 'S' pattern balcony is positioned over the bow, supported by slender cast iron columns that also hold a similarly patterned balcony in front of the third-floor window.
Local climate
2, Queen Anne's Gate SW1 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 — 13 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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