16, Kensington Square W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1970. House. 1 related planning application.

16, Kensington Square W8

WRENN ID
wild-jade-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1970
Type
House
Address
16, Kensington Square W8, W8 5HH
OS grid reference
TQ 257 794
Coordinates
51.50021, -0.18963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 16 Kensington Square is a house built around 1876 in the Flemish style. It has four storeys, a basement, and a dormer gable, featuring three windows. The exterior is made of painted brick with red brick dressings. The shaped gable displays the year 1876 in a lunette cartouche. The windows on the second floor are recessed sash windows with gauged flat brick arches, brick architraves, and a pedimented central window. The round-arched doorway is flanked by pilasters that support a shaped over-door. A continuous wrought iron balcony is located at the first-floor level, and there are wrought iron railings with brick piers topped with stone ball finials.

Local climate

16, Kensington Square W8 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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