28, South Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Town house. 10 related planning applications.
28, South Street W1
- WRENN ID
- tangled-copper-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 28, South Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 1DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50816, -0.15185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 28, South Street is a former stable building, rebuilt as a small town house in 1902-03, designed by Detmar Blow, with some internal detailing by Fernand Billerey. The building is constructed of stone-dressed red brick with a slate roof. It is an example of late 17th-century English vernacular revival architecture, featuring quoins, a modillion eaves cornice, and prominent dormers. The house is three storeys high, with a basement and attic, and is five windows wide. The central entrance has a stone architrave doorcase with a scrolled open pediment. The sash windows have nearly flush frames, with flat-gauged rubbed brick arches and keystones. A modillion bracketed eaves detail runs around the building. Barrel-vaulted sashed dormers light the attic. Flanking corniced chimney stacks are present. Elaborate, French-inspired ironwork, ramped between finialed, panelled standards, leads to the area before the entrance. The detailing throughout the front showcases fine Arts and Crafts workmanship. The interiors are of a high quality, with a spacious timber staircase designed in the late 17th-century manner.
Local climate
28, South 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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