23, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terraced town house. 7 related planning applications.
23, Wimpole Street W1
- WRENN ID
- noble-flagstone-vermeil
- 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
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 23, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8GP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51856, -0.1482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 23 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built around 1770 as part of the Portland Estate development. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a three-window wide front that lacks stylistic ornamentation. To the right, there is a semicircular arched doorway with a panelled door that has a rosette-decorated head under a fanlight. The ground floor has recessed sash windows with intact glazing bars, which are set under flat gauged arches on the upper floors. A stucco string course runs above the ground floor stuccowork, and the building is topped with a parapet that has coping. A late 19th-century cast iron balcony extends across the first floor, and the area railings are adorned with tasselled spearhead finials. Inside, the house retains a stone staircase with a wrought iron scrolled balustrade, along with some plasterwork and carved marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
23, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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