20, Upper Brook Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.

20, Upper Brook Street W1

WRENN ID
forbidden-copper-indigo
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
House
Address
20, Upper Brook Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 7PX
OS grid reference
TQ 280 807
Coordinates
51.51143, -0.15582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a terraced town house located on Upper Brook Street, dating from 1737 with alterations in the early 19th century and an attic storey added in 1865-66. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate roof and has four storeys plus a basement, topped by a dormered mansard. It is three windows wide. The ground floor is channelled and features a Cundy Doric porch on the right. The entrance has a semicircular arched doorway with side lights and a patterned fanlight, added during the early 19th century. The windows are sash windows within moulded architraves with cornices supported by consoles on the first floor. A balustraded balcony, also added by Cundy, runs over the porch. A decorative cornice and blocking course top the facade, with cast iron area railings below.

The interior retains the original layout, including a front compartment staircase hall with a cut string staircase. The stairs feature carved brackets, turned balusters, a scrolled foot, and a ramped rail, though these have been considerably restored and modified. A service staircase with turned balusters is also present. The front ground floor room boasts a decorated plaster ceiling with a central "sun king" motif. The stair compartment ceiling has slight Rococo plasterwork. The first floor rooms have moulded panelling and modillion cornices, with a chimney piece on the rear of the first floor. The second floor retains much of its original panelling.

Local climate

20, Upper Brook Street W1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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