26, Upper Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 1 related planning application.
26, Upper Wimpole Street W1
- WRENN ID
- veiled-steel-clover
- 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
- 26, Upper Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 6LD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 817
- Coordinates
- 51.5204, -0.1495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Upper Wimpole Street is a corner terraced town house built around 1900. It features red brick with Portland stone and painted stone dressings, topped with a slate roof. The design is in a Free Style that incorporates elements of "Queen Anne" and Renaissance architecture. The building stands four storeys high with a basement. The Upper Wimpole Street facade has two double-gabled windows, while a three-storey rectangular bay projects at the corner, with a three-window return facing Weymouth Street that includes the entrance. The ground floor of the return has a cornice hooded doorway and a bow window. The windows throughout are a mix of mullioned-transomed casements and sashes. Decorative features enhance the corner bay and the single-storey adjoining rectangular bay window facing Harley Street, both topped with shaped parapets. The crowning gables have shaped copings, and there is a swept parapet. Additionally, cast iron area railings in a "Queen Anne" style surround the property.
Local climate
26, Upper 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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