Stanley House is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1954. House. 13 related planning applications.
Stanley House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-gable-wind
- 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
- Address
- Stanley House, 550 Kings Road, London, SW10 0UA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 260 773
- Coordinates
- 51.48087, -0.18567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stanley House is a substantial house dating to circa 1691, with later alterations and additions. It is located on King’s Road, originally listed as Principal's House for the College of St Mark and St John. The house has a basement and pedimented dormers, with five windows at the front. Constructed of red brick, it features brick pier projections on the sides and a red brick band at the first floor level. A wood block bracketed cave cornice sits below the slate roof. The windows have red gauged flat arches and brick dressings, while the entrance is surrounded by stone. The rear elevation is similar, but a former doorway, now a window, has a stone architrave, consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded head. A two-storey brick extension is located on the north-east side, including a one-storey stone loggia with square columns. This loggia contains the first casts taken of the Elgin Marbles.
Local climate
Stanley 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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