Chelsea Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Town hall. 14 related planning applications.
Chelsea Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- worn-gallery-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Chelsea Town Hall, King's Road Sw3
- OS grid reference
- TQ 272 780
- Coordinates
- 51.48745, -0.16819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chelsea Town Hall is a town hall built between 1906 and 1918, designed by architect Leonard Stokes. It features red brick and stone construction with a granite plinth and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and 15 windows wide, with three bays at each end that are pedimented and have stone facing. There are Roman Ionic columns in antis at the entrances, and the red brick walls are adorned with stone architraves, aprons, and cornices. The ground floor windows have segmental heads, while the upper windows are square-headed. A central bellcote with a split pediment and a large, elaborate dado projects beneath it. The town hall is grouped with the Old Vestry Hall at the rear in Chelsea Manor Gardens.
Local climate
Chelsea Town Hall 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 2019
- 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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