2, Duke Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1970. Terraced town house. 1 related planning application.
2, Duke Street W1
- WRENN ID
- standing-ashlar-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1970
- Type
- Terraced town house
- Address
- 2, Duke Street W1, City of Westminster, W1U 3EX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 282 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51617, -0.15256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Duke Street is a terraced town house built around 1776 to 1788, as part of the Duke of Manchester's development of Manchester Square on Portman land. The building features multi-coloured stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and is four windows wide. The doorway is located to the left of centre and is square-headed, flanked by pilasters that support an entablature with a dentil cornice. It has a panelled door and a fanlight above. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged red brick arches, and there is a stucco plat band at the first floor level. The parapet has stone coping, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials. Inside, the house retains some fine plasterwork in the Adam style and an open well staircase with a wrought iron balustrade.
Local climate
2, Duke 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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