No. 10 (Kent House) including railings and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Hammersmith and Fulham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1954. House. 14 related planning applications.
No. 10 (Kent House) including railings and gate
- WRENN ID
- twisted-gutter-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Constituency
- Hammersmith and Chiswick MP: Andy Slaughter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- No. 10 (Kent House) including railings and gate, 10 Lower Mall, London, W6 9DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 229 782
- Coordinates
- 51.48949, -0.23056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 10, also known as Kent House, is a house first recorded in 1762 when it was newly built. It features two shades of yellow brick and is two storeys high, raised over a basement, with a roof concealed behind parapets. The building has a double range plan with a projecting servants' wing at the rear.
The exterior has a symmetrical front that is three windows wide, flanked by projecting bay windows, which are also three windows wide. It has high parapets with a stone modillion cornice, and the bay windows contain sash windows with gauged brick heads. The first-floor windows in the centre have arched heads, while those on the sides have 'Y' tracery, and the central window is tripartite with an arched top light. The entrance door is set in a tripartite surround with a 20th-century fanlight above, flanked by medallions and situated under a band. The rear elevation is made of stock brick, featuring red gauged brick heads on the ground floor and yellow gauged brick heads on the first floor.
Inside, the hallway may have been remodeled in the early 19th century, featuring a curved staircase against a curved wall with simple stick balusters, and a blocked window that suggests some alterations. There is a shallow cornice, and the north wall opposite the main entrance door has a symmetrical arrangement with a panel between a door and a false door. The former drawing room boasts an 18th-century plaster ceiling, frieze, cornice, and a fireplace with terms. The former library behind the hall also has cornices and a fireplace, with additional cornices in an adjoining room that is now divided. Many original doors, architraves, and skirtings remain. The first floor retains cornices in the principal rooms, particularly in a curved room at the eastern end of the rear elevation, which features modillions, enriched mouldings, and a frieze of alternate flutes and paterae. The central rear room appears to contain the original fanlight from the entrance door as part of an internal partition. The basement includes two vaulted rooms, and one room lined in stone may have provided access from the riverfront to a rear yard.
The property is complemented by wrought iron railings at the front, which are ramped to the central gateway (the latter has been renewed), and steps that lead up to the raised ground floor.
Local climate
No. 10 (Kent House) including railings and gate 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 — 14 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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