56 and 58, Queen's Gate Terrace SW7 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Pair of houses.
56 and 58, Queen's Gate Terrace SW7
- WRENN ID
- twisted-lantern-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Pair of houses
- OS grid reference
- TQ 261 793
- Coordinates
- 51.49876, -0.18347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 56 and 58 Queen's Gate Terrace are a pair of houses built around 1863-1864, designed by architect C Grey. These late 19th-century homes feature polychrome brick with stone dressings and stucco ornamentation, showcasing Italianate Ruskinian characteristics. Each house is two to three windows wide and has an immensely overhanging eaves cornice with enriched brackets and coloured tile inlay, topped with ornamental chimney stacks. The buildings rise four storeys with a basement, and feature arched entrances set in advanced porches. The first-floor windows have rope-moulded arches and carved capitals, while the upper floors display grouped windows in threes, each with arched polychromed heads separated by pilasters, curved caps, and archivolts. A string course on the third floor is highlighted by a twisted rope motif. Additionally, there is a first-floor balcony with Gothic iron balustrades.
Local climate
56 and 58, Queen's Gate Terrace SW7 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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