Number 38 Including Area Railings and Pair of Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town mansion. 6 related planning applications.
Number 38 Including Area Railings and Pair of Piers
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- 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
- Town mansion
- Address
- Number 38 Including Area Railings and Pair of Piers, South Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50843, -0.15043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 38 is a substantial town mansion dating to 1920, designed by Wimperis, Simpson and J Murray Easton. The building is constructed of red handmade brick with Portland stone dressings, and is topped with a steep pantiled mansard roof extending to a parapet. It has two main floors plus an attic, and incorporates two tiers of dormers, arranged over nine bays.
A projecting, stone-faced enclosed porch shelters the central entrance. The porch features Ionic half columns and pilasters, along with a prominent keystone and a broken, scroll-shaped pediment. Within the outer, open pediment of painted lead, a cartouche displays the date. A panelled door leads into the property. Giant pilaster strips run along the corners and between the second and third, and seventh and eighth bays, rising from ground to first floor and repeated in the attic. The ground and first floors have square-headed windows; the outer bays feature intermediate circular windows. The attic windows are mainly segmental headed, but circular in the third, fifth and seventh bays, all with gauged heads and flush frames with glazing bars. An enriched modillion cornice sits above the first floor, leading to a parapet with elaborate torch finials above the pilasters. The lower dormers are segmental headed and corniced, while the upper dormers consist of square headed triplets with sash windows and glazing bars.
Cast and wrought iron area railings flank a pair of Portland stone piers, topped with pineapple finials. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Number 38 Including Area Railings and Pair of Piers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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