20, Old Queen Street SW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
20, Old Queen Street SW1
- WRENN ID
- white-quoin-swallow
- 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 house
- Address
- 20, Old Queen Street SW1, City of Westminster, SW1H 9HP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50093, -0.13061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terraced town house located at 20 Old Queen Street, Westminster, built in 1909 by F.W. Troup. It is an individual Arts and Crafts interpretation of a neo-Georgian design, intended as a small town house. The building is constructed of dark red ceramic brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. It has three storeys, an attic, and a basement.
The front of the house is two windows wide, with three windows on the second floor. The ground floor has a low entrance to the right, featuring a panelled door with an oval leaded light, set within a stone surround with a cambered voussoir arch and console brackets to a serpentine cornice hood. A low, segmental arched casement window is located to the left. The first floor showcases two shallow, wood-framed, canted bay windows with glazing bar casements, set in semicircular arched recesses. Three small, segmental arched glazing bar sashes are found on the second floor. A bracketed eaves cornice runs along the top. A small, central Venetian dormer window is positioned in the attic. The front is complemented by good cast iron railings with urn finials and Portland stone panelled obelisk piers flanking the entrance.
The rear elevation, facing St James's Park, is red brick with stone quoins, featuring glazing bar sashes and a canted bay window on a smaller scale inspired by the adjacent 18th-century building’s design.
Local climate
20, Old Queen Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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