70, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terraced town house.
70, Wimpole Street W1
- WRENN ID
- tall-steeple-vermeil
- 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
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 70, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51804, -0.14839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 70 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built in the 1770s as part of the Portland Estate development. It is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. The building has four storeys, a dormered mansard, and a basement, with three windows across the front.
To the left, there is a semicircular arched doorway that has a vermiculated keystone, a panelled door, and Doric panelled pilaster jambs with a corniced doorhead and fanlight. The upper floors have recessed sash windows, which are set under rusticated stucco voussoir flat arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor, and there is a parapet with coping. The dormers are pedimented, and there is a cast iron balcony from around 1900 across the first floor, along with spear head finialed railings. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
70, 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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