36, King Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Terrace house. 3 related planning applications.
36, King Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- iron-wicket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 36, King Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2E 8JS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51181, -0.12447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 36 King Street is a terrace house built between 1715 and 1716, with the front rebuilt around 1750 to 1751. The building is constructed of stock brick and has a concealed roof. It stands four storeys high and is three windows wide. The ground floor has been altered with a mid to late 20th-century shop front, featuring a plain 19th-century doorway set in a stucco surround to the right, accessed by steps. The upper floors have recessed sash windows beneath flat gauged red brick arches, with later casements in the attic storey. There is a stone sill band on the first floor and a bracketed stone cornice above the second floor, along with a rebuilt parapet topped with stone coping.
The back elevation is largely original and dates from the early 18th century, featuring a closet wing with flush framed sashes under flat red brick arches and red brick strings between the storeys. Inside, above the ground floor, the building retains original and mid-18th-century features, including panelling in the rear first floor and second floor rooms. The front first floor room has a mid-18th-century enriched plaster cornice. The staircase, which has probably been altered, features plain balusters, turned newel posts, and a heavy swept handrail.
Local climate
36, King Street WC2 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 — 3 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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