69, Portland Place W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house.
69, Portland Place W1
- WRENN ID
- lone-quoin-frost
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 69, Portland Place W1, City of Westminster, W1B 1AR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 287 819
- Coordinates
- 51.52185, -0.14616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 69 Portland Place is a large end-of-terrace town house, rebuilt in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of gault brick with Portland stone dressings, featuring a channelled and vermiculated ground floor and a slate roof. The building exhibits a restrained Italianate Classicism style and stands four storeys tall with a basement and a dormered mansard roof.
The front facade is broad, with three windows, and it has a nine-window return to Devonshire Street that includes the entrance. A shallow porch supported by Doric columns leads to the entrance, and there is an iron balustraded parapet above. The upper floors have recessed sash windows with architrave surrounds, and those on the first and second floors feature cornices.
A stone balcony with an enriched late Grecian patterned continuous balustrade is present on the first floor, while the second floor has a sill course and a sharply profiled bracketed crowning cornice topped with a coped parapet. The return facade displays similar architectural details. Additionally, there are plumbed finialed cast iron area railings.
Local climate
69, 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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