32-54, Balcombe Street NW1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1981. A C.1815-20 Terraced houses. 36 related planning applications.
32-54, Balcombe Street NW1
- WRENN ID
- turning-buttress-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1981
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- 32-54, Balcombe Street NW1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 275 821
- Coordinates
- 51.52368, -0.16235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of terraced houses at numbers 32 to 54 Balcombe Street, built around 1815 to 1820 as part of the Portman Estate development. The houses are of stock brick construction with the ground floors finished in channelled stucco. They have slate roofs and four storeys plus a basement (numbers 34 and 36 have dormered mansards). Each house front is two windows wide. Doorways are arranged semicircular on the left (numbers 32 to 44) and square-headed on the right, all featuring panelled doors set within pilaster surrounds, with entablature-style detailing above, and fanlights. The upper floors contain recessed sash windows, set beneath flat, gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor. The houses have stone-coped parapets and continuous geometric balconies with an anthemion pattern, running along the first floors. Original cast iron area railings are present, finished with bud and spearhead finials.
Local climate
32-54, Balcombe Street NW1 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 — 20 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 36 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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