Cabmen's Shelter to Centre Ground Outside Numbers 8 and 10 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1988. A Modern Shelter. 3 related planning applications.
Cabmen's Shelter to Centre Ground Outside Numbers 8 and 10
- WRENN ID
- fallen-groin-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 June 1988
- Type
- Shelter
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Cabmen's Shelter to Centre Ground Outside Numbers 8 and 10, Kensington Park Road, W11 3BY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 251 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50995, -0.19796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cabmen's shelter built in 1909, created by the Cabmen's Shelter Fund under the supervision of architect M. Starmer Hack. The structure features a timber frame with timber cladding and overlapping timber boards on a low pitched roof with overhanging eaves. It is a single storey building measuring seven main bays by three bays, with entrances at both ends. The frame's horizontal and vertical members are visible, and there are panels of vertical boarding in between. The sides have three square-headed sashed windows, each with six panes and timber glazing bars, along with pivoting lights above.
Local climate
Cabmen's Shelter to Centre Ground Outside Numbers 8 and 10 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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