Service Wing and Outbuildings to Kenwood House is a Grade II* listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1954. Service wing, outbuildings. 1 related planning application.
Service Wing and Outbuildings to Kenwood House
- WRENN ID
- dark-pilaster-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1954
- Type
- Service wing, outbuildings
- Address
- Service Wing and Outbuildings to Kenwood House, NW3 7JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 271 874
- Coordinates
- 51.57174, -0.16696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The service wing and outbuildings to Kenwood House, built between 1793 and 1795 by George Saunders, are now partly converted into a restaurant. These structures are made of multi-coloured stock brick and feature hipped, slated roofs with wooden, bracketed eaves cornices.
The exterior presents an irregular range, highlighted by a large central rectangular kitchen with splayed corners, flanked by diagonal wings on the main south facade, which is screened by a loggia. The loggia is supported by wooden Doric columns and features an entablature. The kitchen is three storeys high with three windows, and the entrance is located under the loggia, featuring a round-arched doorway with a patterned fanlight and double panelled doors. The windows have gauged yellow brick flat arches and are recessed sash windows. The roof includes a rectangular louvred lantern topped by a dome.
On the right-hand wing, there are two storeys with five windows (the centre window is blind) and one window on the splayed return. The entrances under the loggia include a square-headed doorway with a brick flat arch and a partly glazed door on the left, and two wooden carriage doors with a segmental arch overlight on the right. The left-hand wing is similar in design. The east facade is constructed of brown brick and features a brick band at the first floor level, with two storeys and nine windows, the centre three of which slightly project. The windows here also have gauged yellow brick flat arches and are recessed sashes.
The interiors are plain and have undergone some alterations.
Local climate
Service Wing and Outbuildings to Kenwood House 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- 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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