23, Charles Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. House.
23, Charles Street W1
- WRENN ID
- vast-garret-weasel
- 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
- 23, Charles Street W1, City of Westminster, W1J 5DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50749, -0.14894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 23 Charles Street is a terrace house built around 1753, with alterations made in the mid to late 19th century. The building features brown brick with channelled stucco on the ground floor and a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard roof. The facade is three windows wide, and there is a semi-circular arched entrance leading to an enclosed porch on the right side. A mid-19th century canted bay window spans the full width of the first floor and includes sash lights, while the second and third floors have revealed sashes without glazing bars, set under flat gauged arches. The building is topped with a stucco cornice and blocking course, and there are cast iron railings surrounding the basement area. The interior has undergone some alterations but still retains features such as a wrought iron balustraded staircase and cornice mouldings.
Local climate
23, Charles 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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