39, Charles Street W1 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.
39, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- stark-transept-birch
- 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
- 39, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5EG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 287 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50796, -0.14658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 39 Charles Street is a substantial terraced town house built around 1750-1753 by master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, located on a Berkeley Estate lease. The house is constructed of brown brick and features a slate roof. It stands three storeys high, with a basement and a dormered mansard, and has five windows across its front.
The entrance is marked by an Ionic columned doorcase with a full entablature to the right, which frames a panelled door and a patterned fanlight. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches within stuccoed reveals. A painted stone plat band is present on the first floor, and there is a moulded stone cornice below the parapet with coping. The front steps are flanked by wrought iron area railings with scrollwork standards, and the house retains its original lead rainwater head and downpipe.
The rear elevation is plain, featuring a three-window bow to the right and a two-storey wing that connects to the coach house and stables in the mews. The interior of the house is virtually unaltered, aside from some partitioning. It includes a front compartment staircase leading to the first floor, which has stone treads, a wrought iron balustrade, and a ramped handrail. The compartment ceiling is adorned with an enriched cornice and a fanned medallion-rose. The first-floor rear contains a "Chinese Room" with hand-painted wallpaper, as well as good plasterwork ceilings, enriched cornices, carved wood and statuary marble chimney pieces, overmantel mirrors, pier glasses, and an original water-closet.
Local climate
39, Charles 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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- 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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