117-121, MOUNT STREET W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1969. Terrace of houses and flats. 77 related planning applications.
117-121, MOUNT STREET W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- white-eave-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1969
- Type
- Terrace of houses and flats
- Address
- 117-121, MOUNT STREET W1 (See details for further address information), 119a, 120a, 120b and 121a, City of Westminster, W1K 3NL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50993, -0.14859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a terrace of houses and flats with shops, built between 1886 and 1887 by James Trant Smith. It's located on Mount Street and forms part of the 1880s and 1890s rebuilding of the street for the Grosvenor Estate. The building is constructed of red brick with elaborate terracotta dressings and slate roofs. The design is ornate and eclectic, drawing on Queen Anne and Flemish architectural styles.
The terrace is four storeys high with dormered and gabled attics. The ground floor retains mostly original shop fronts, featuring segmented arched display windows grouped together with doorways. These are framed by engaged decorated columns and pilasters that support a continuous entablature with iron cresting. The upper floors have two pairs of canted bay windows on either side of a central bowed oriel window that rises to a shaped gable. At each end of the block are polygonal corner pavilions with domed attics. The windows are mullioned-transomed casements and sashes with glazing bars, set within architraves. Smaller gabled windows and elliptical arched dormers are incorporated into the roof. The building features moulded string and sill courses. The east corner pavilion has additional cast iron balconies and inset busts on each floor. The return elevations are of plain brick. Prominent chimney stacks are a notable feature.
Local climate
117-121, MOUNT STREET W1 (See details for further address information) 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 — 14 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 77 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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