20-26, Wellington Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Terrace houses, shops. 56 related planning applications.
20-26, Wellington Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-sentry-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Terrace houses, shops
- Address
- 20-26, Wellington Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2E 7DD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 305 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51204, -0.12009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 20 to 26 Wellington Street are a row of terrace houses with shops, built between 1833 and 1835 by Samuel Beazley. The buildings are constructed of stock brick with stucco dressings and feature a slate roof. They rise to four storeys with dormered mansards. The façades vary: No 20 has a two-window front, No 22 has a one-window front, No 24 has a two-window front, and No 26 has a three-window front with a three-window return. Each house has panelled doors with fanlights, mainly positioned to the right, and these are integrated into wooden shop fronts that include pilaster strips and console brackets supporting projecting cornices over fascias. Notably, No 20 features a segmental arched display window flanked by colonettes. The upper floors are adorned with square-headed recessed glazing bar sashes set within stucco architraves. There are stucco plat bands at the first and third floors, along with a stucco frieze and a crowning cornice topped with a blocking course. A continuous cast iron balcony spans the first floor.
Local climate
20-26, Wellington 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
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 56 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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