15, 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. 7 related planning applications.

15, Kensington Square W8

WRENN ID
drifting-gallery-tallow
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
15, Kensington Square W8, W8 5HH
OS grid reference
TQ 257 794
Coordinates
51.50022, -0.18953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 19th-century house built in the Flemish style, located on Kensington Square. It is a two-window house, three storeys high with a basement and features Dutch dormer gables. The exterior is brick with a balustraded parapet and a brick cornice. The windows are square-headed with moulded architraves; the first-floor windows have broken pediments, and the second-floor window has a wrought iron balcony. A continuous wrought iron balcony runs along the first floor. A projecting ground floor window is flanked by pilasters. The round-arched doorway is also flanked by pilasters supporting a cornice and has panelled reveals, a fanlight, and a panelled door.

Local climate

15, 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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