1, South Audley Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
1, South Audley Street W1
- WRENN ID
- winter-quoin-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, South Audley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1K 1NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 284 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50706, -0.15018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 South Audley Street is a large terraced house built around 1878-79 by F.P. Cockerell and completed by G. Aitchison, junior. It features red brick construction with elaborate cut and moulded brick ornamentation and a slate roof. The design showcases lively Renaissance detailing in shallow relief. The building consists of three tall storeys and a basement, topped with a dormered mansard roof.
It has two major bays and three secondary niche bays. A prominent brick porch with an archivolt arch and pilasters leads to the entrance, featuring a panelled and balustraded parapet. The two-storey bay window has basket handle arched sash lights set within brick architraves, complemented by richly modelled friezes. The niche bays contain first-floor windows, with two lights on the left and three on the right, all featuring similar arches and sculpted niches above.
The building is adorned with string courses and an elaborated entablature, topped by a balustraded parapet that is interrupted by two brick dormers with shaped pediments. It also boasts prominent chimney stacks and a short south return that mirrors the main details. A decorative ironwork railing adorns the first-floor balcony, and the area railings feature distinctive elaboration.
Inside, while some alterations have been made, the interiors retain richly modelled Renaissance rinceaux and putti detailing on mouldings and cornices, as well as elaborated ironwork on the staircase balustrade.
Local climate
1, South Audley 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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