40, Queen Anne Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Town house. 1 related planning application.
40, Queen Anne Street W1
- WRENN ID
- fading-pilaster-sparrow
- 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
- Town house
- Address
- 40, Queen Anne Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 9EL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 815
- Coordinates
- 51.51805, -0.148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Queen Anne Street is a corner terraced town house built between 1765 and 1775 as part of the Portland Estate development. 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 is three windows wide, extending with a partly blind long return to Wimpole Street.
The entrance is marked by a semicircular arched doorway on the right, framed by a wooden Doric doorcase that includes pilasters and a steep open pediment. The door itself is panelled and topped with a reeded doorhead beneath a fanlight. The upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches. Above the ground floor, there is a stucco course and a plain frieze, topped by a crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. The area railings are made of cast iron and feature plumbed spike finials.
Inside, the house retains a geometrical staircase with delicately turned balusters, along with plasterwork and statuary marble chimneypieces.
Local climate
40, Queen Anne 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings