26, Dover Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terrace house. 9 related planning applications.
26, Dover Street W1
- WRENN ID
- heavy-moat-juniper
- 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
- Terrace house
- Address
- 26, Dover Street W1, City of Westminster, W1S 4LY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 289 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50917, -0.14269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Dover Street is a late 18th-century terrace house constructed of stock brick with a slate roof. Originally three storeys high, it has since been modified to include an attic storey and a dormered slate mansard. The façade features three windows with revealed sashes that have renewed glazing bars, all set under flat gauged arches. A canted wooden bay window from around 1900 is located at the center of the first floor. There is an early 19th-century cast iron balcony on the first floor, and the ground floor windows have been reinstated along with area railings. The original doorway is round-arched and includes sidelights and a fanlight, framed by a panelled pilaster strip with spandrels and a keystone. Inside, the hall retains original plasterwork, including a cornice with guttae brackets and ceiling roses. The staircase features scrolled wrought iron balustrades, and the ceiling of the front room on the first floor showcases delicate Adam style plasterwork.
Local climate
26, Dover 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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