3, Cavendish Square W1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Terrace house. 9 related planning applications.

3, Cavendish Square W1

WRENN ID
seventh-jamb-pearl
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Terrace house
Address
3, Cavendish Square W1, City of Westminster, W1G 0LB
OS grid reference
TQ 288 813
Coordinates
51.51652, -0.1439
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 3 Cavendish Square is a substantial terrace house built around 1740. It features a brown brick exterior and a slate roof, rising four storeys with a basement and a slated mansard roof that includes dormers. The building has four windows, with stone plat bands and a main cornice at the third floor level. The sash windows are revealed and have red brick dressings and gauged flat arches. There are early 19th-century cast iron balconettes on the first floor and a large stone architrave doorcase with console brackets supporting the cornice. The property also includes cast iron area railings.

Inside, the house has a well-crafted staircase in the front compartment leading to the piano nobile, featuring dado and full-height panelling. The staircase has an open string design with carved tread ends, twisted balusters, a ramped handrail that scrolls at the foot, and columnar newels. The panelled drawing room has entablatured doorways, and there are marble carved chimneypieces in both the front and rear rooms. Additionally, there is a service staircase with a turned baluster off the rear vestibule.

Local climate

3, Cavendish Square 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.

More on this building

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 9 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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