19, Essex Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Terrace house. 1 related planning application.
19, Essex Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- spare-dormer-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 19, Essex Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2R 3AT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 310 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51204, -0.11253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 19 Essex Street is a terrace house built around 1675 to 1682 as part of the Barbon development. It has seen little alteration over the years. The building is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof. It stands three storeys high, with a basement and a dormered mansard roof. The façade is three windows wide, and the entrance is located to the right, featuring a panelled door and a patterned rectangular fanlight set within a wooden architrave doorcase that includes carved consoles and a cornice. The windows are flush framed glazing bar sash windows, positioned under flat gauged arches with stone keys. There are stone plat bands at the first and second floors, and the parapet has been partly rebuilt with stone coping. The property is also adorned with cast iron area railings topped with urn finials. Inside, much of the original panelling remains, along with a closed string dog leg staircase that has turned and twisted balusters and decorative doorcases.
Local climate
19, Essex Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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