Queens House is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1954. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.

Queens House

WRENN ID
standing-banister-yew
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1954
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Queens House, 16, Cheyne Walk Sw3
OS grid reference
TQ 274 777
Coordinates
51.48402, -0.16595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Queens House is a house built in 1717, with alterations to its front. It has three storeys, a basement, and dormers, featuring seven windows, including a three-window splayed bay added at the first and second floors. The building is constructed of brown brick, with rusticated brick piers on the sides. It has a dentil cornice and a pediment above the central five windows on the second floor, along with a moulded brick band at that level. The ground floor has arched openings that are linked by a moulded band at the springing. The upper floor windows have segmental arches, each with keystones. A tablet on the building commemorates the residence of the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Local climate

Queens House 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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