53, Wimpole Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1966. House. 5 related planning applications.
53, Wimpole Street W1
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- 53, Wimpole Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 8YH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51952, -0.14911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 53 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house dating from the 1770s, part of the Portland Estate development, likely designed by John White. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys high with a basement and has a three-window side front that lacks stylistic decoration.
The entrance boasts a broad semicircular arched doorway, which is adorned with stucco rustication and Coade guilloche patterned imposts. The door is panelled and flanked by sidelights and a fanlight in a plain Venetian style. The upper floors have recessed sash windows set beneath flat gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor stuccowork, and the parapet is topped with coping. A Victorian cast iron balcony with a scroll pattern spans the first floor, and the area railings are fitted with plumbed spike finials.
Inside, the property retains several notable features, including a stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, decorative plasterwork, and statuary marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
53, 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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