29, St James's Place SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1969. Terrace house. 5 related planning applications.
29, St James's Place SW1
- WRENN ID
- calm-belfry-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1969
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 29, St James's Place SW1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1NR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50538, -0.13986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 29 St James's Place is a terrace house built around 1691-1696, with some early 19th-century alterations. The building features brown brick with a stuccoed ground floor and a slate roof. It has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard, with three windows across the front. There is a square-headed doorway to the left, and the ground floor has recessed sashes, while the first and second floors have flush framed sashes beneath red brick gauged flat arches. A brick plat band runs above the first floor parapet, topped with coping. A geometric pattern cast iron balcony spans the first floor, and there are wrought iron area railings. Inside, part of the original dog leg staircase with turned balusters is still intact.
Local climate
29, St James's Place SW1 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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