40, Craven Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
40, Craven Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- ancient-moat-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 40, Craven Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 5NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 302 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50781, -0.12522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Craven Street is a terraced town house built around 1731, with alterations made around 1792. It features brown brick with red brick window dressings and a channelled stucco ground floor, topped with a slate roof. The building has four storeys, with the top floor added in 1792, and a basement. It is four windows wide and has a square three-room plan similar to No. 39, but without a front staircase. The semicircular arched doorway is located in the second bay from the left, framed by a plain stucco surround, and includes a recessed panelled door and fanlight. The windows are recessed plate glass sashes set under flat gauged red brick arches. There is a cornice-band above the ground floor and a sill band at the first floor, which finish off the stuccowork, along with a parapet that has coping. The property is enclosed by cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Although the interior has been altered, it still retains plain panelling above the first floor, while the rear first floor room features fielded panelling and carved wood pilasters around the chimneypiece. The cut and carved string staircase has two balusters per tread and a clustered curtail. This house is part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, which was laid out by Flitcroft.
Local climate
40, Craven Street WC2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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