21, Upper Brook Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town house.

21, Upper Brook Street W1

WRENN ID
moated-latch-onyx
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
21, Upper Brook Street W1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 280 807
Coordinates
51.5114, -0.15595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 21 Upper Brook Street is a terraced town house built in 1737, with alterations and internal remodelling dating from around 1787 to 1800, and restoration and stuccoing of the front completed in the early 1970s. The building features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, standing four storeys tall with a basement and a dormered mansard. It has three windows across its façade. The ground floor is channelled stucco, with an entrance on the left that includes a late 18th-century semicircular doorway flanked by narrow sidelights and topped with a patterned fanlight. The windows are recessed, square-headed sash types. The building has a parapet with coping and is adorned with late 18th-century wrought iron area railings.

Inside, the house retains features from its late 18th-century remodelling, including cornices, friezes, and some doorcases. A pair of columns separates the front and back rooms on the ground floor, and there are several marble chimney pieces, all reflecting a restrained style reminiscent of Henry Holland. The staircase, which has a wrought iron balustrade, is believed to have originated during this decorative campaign, although it likely took its current form during alterations in the late 1880s.

Local climate

21, Upper Brook Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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