26, Nassau Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A Georgian Terrace house.

26, Nassau Street W1

WRENN ID
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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
Terrace house
Period
Georgian
Address
26, Nassau Street W1, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 292 815
Coordinates
51.51846, -0.13878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 26 Nassau Street is a terrace house built around 1770 to 1780. It is constructed of stock brick and features a slate roof. The building has four storeys and a basement, with a width of three windows. The ground floor is stuccoed up to the first-floor sill band, and the entrance is located to the right. It has a six-panel door with a reeded transom below a fanlight, all set within an architrave surround. A console bracketed cornice extends over an early to mid-19th century display window. The upper floors have recessed sash windows without glazing bars, which are topped by red brick flat gauged arches. The building is finished with a parapet that has coping and includes wrought iron area railings.

Local climate

26, Nassau Street W1 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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