4, Pollen Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1988. House, shop, flats. 2 related planning applications.

4, Pollen Street W1

WRENN ID
second-buttress-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 November 1988
Type
House, shop, flats
Address
4, Pollen Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 1ND
OS grid reference
TQ 290 810
Coordinates
51.51349, -0.14211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 4 Pollen Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and flats. It was built around 1725 and refaced around 1780. The building features Flemish bond brickwork and a Welsh slate mansard roof with a brick chimney. It has three storeys and an attic, with a two-window range. There is a moulded cornice and a mid-18th century flat timber hood above a square-headed doorway, which has an overlight and a 20th-century door. The ground floor is finished in 19th-century stucco, with a 20th-century glazed door set in an inserted doorway to the left. The first floor has gauged red brick flat arches over 20th-century casements, while the second floor features late 19th-century four-pane sash windows. A stone cill band runs along the first floor, and there is a stone parapet above. The building has flat-roofed dormers.

Inside, there is a mid-18th century panelled room at the front of the ground floor, and a fine mid-18th century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters set on a closed string, featuring panelled bases. The interior also includes mid-18th century panelled doors and moulded cornices above.

Local climate

4, Pollen 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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