23 and 23a, New Row WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Terrace houses with shops. 10 related planning applications.
23 and 23a, New Row WC2
- WRENN ID
- worn-gallery-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Terrace houses with shops
- Address
- 23 and 23a, New Row WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 4LA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 807
- Coordinates
- 51.51115, -0.12639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of terrace houses with shops, built around 1800 and rebuilt in the mid-19th century, with alterations. The buildings are located on the south side of New Row, City of Westminster. They are constructed of stock brickwork with a hidden roof. The buildings are four storeys high, with each having two windows. A narrow recessed party wall panel separates them.
Number 23 features a mid-19th century shop front, with a square-headed doorway and fanlight to the left. The shop front has a small display window to the right and a larger one to the left, all framed by colonette shafts, transoms, and quadrant corners to the top lights. There is an entablature-fascia detail. Number 23A has an altered shop front with a plain, square-headed house door to the left.
The upper floors contain recessed sash windows with glazing bars, set under flat, gauged arches. A parapet with coping tops the building. The buildings are listed due to their contribution to the group value of this street, which mainly consists of early 19th-century houses originally part of the 1630s Bedford Estate development of Covent Garden.
Local climate
23 and 23a, New Row WC2 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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