36, Smith Square SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A 20th century Town house. 1 related planning application.
36, Smith Square SW1
- WRENN ID
- fading-remnant-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 36, Smith Square SW1, City of Westminster, SW1P 3HL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 791
- Coordinates
- 51.49604, -0.12779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 36 Smith Square is a corner terraced town house built in 1911 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The building is constructed of grey brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, topped with a tiled roof. It features a restrained William and Mary/neo-Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a steep dormered mansard. The façade is three windows wide, with a seven-window return to Dean Trench Street.
The central doorway is stone rusticated and has a bolection cornice above a ground floor plat band, featuring a glazed wrought iron grille door. The ground floor has glazing bar sash windows set back in rusticated stone surrounds that extend down to the plinth. The first floor showcases tall flush framed glazing bar sashes in a style reminiscent of around 1700, positioned under red brick flat gauged arches, with red brick dressings that extend down to the ground floor plat band, framing the aprons below the sills. A deep, moulded stone eaves cornice completes the design. The return section has a three-bay centre break with a central doorway that mirrors the stone dressings, rustications, and fenestration of the main façade. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
36, Smith Square SW1 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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