30, 30a, 30b and 31, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town house. 12 related planning applications.

30, 30a, 30b and 31, Wimpole Street W1

WRENN ID
lunar-mullion-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Town house
Address
30, 30a, 30b and 31, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8GR
OS grid reference
TQ 285 816
Coordinates
51.51929, -0.14852
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

30, 30A, 30B, and 31 Wimpole Street is a large corner block of townhouses built in 1912 by Banister Fletcher. The building is constructed from Portland stone and features slate roofs. It showcases a dynamic Free Style design that combines classical and Jacobean elements, highlighted by steep pediment-gables and canted bays. The structure has four storeys plus attics, and it sits on a basement.

The front facade includes two three-storey canted bays and a corner bay, while the symmetrical return on New Cavendish Street features three pairs of three-storey canted bays along with a central attic feature. Doorways are positioned beneath a first-floor balcony situated between the canted bays. The windows are flush ashlar mullioned and transomed leaded casement types, with small oblong windows on the third floor alternating with blind panels, which create a "frieze" effect beneath the main cornice and pediments. The pediments also contain circular windows.

On the New Cavendish Street side, there are four small windows between each pair of canted bays on every floor, set within segmental arched lined panels. The building features two segmental pedimented stone dormers between the front pediments and two wider dormers that project forward on the return, flanking a central balustraded and arcaded concave attic feature. A continuous stone strapwork balustraded balcony on consoles is present at the first floor, flush with the fronts of the canted bays, along with similar stone balconies on the first and second floors of the return, linking the pairs of canted bays. The building is finished with a moulded main cornice and moulded pediments, and it is surrounded by cast iron area railings.

Local climate

30, 30a, 30b and 31, Wimpole 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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