2, Palace Gate SW7 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Residential building. 5 related planning applications.
2, Palace Gate SW7
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-corbel-sorrel
- 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
- Residential building
- OS grid reference
- TQ 261 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50073, -0.18366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Palace Gate is a building designed by P C Hardwick for Sir John Millais in 1878. It is constructed of brick and stone, standing four storeys tall and featuring three windows across its façade. The building has a prominent two-storey porch supported by superimposed Doric and Ionic columns, and there is a two-storey studio wing extending to the north.
Local climate
2, Palace Gate 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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