16, Young Street W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1949. House.
16, Young Street W8
- WRENN ID
- heavy-footing-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1949
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TQ 257 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50128, -0.18988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 Young Street is a house built around 1815. It is made of brown brick and has two storeys with dormers. The facade is symmetrical, featuring two segmental bays with two windows each, and a prominent central doorway flanked by recessed pilasters. The building has a stucco basement, a band at the first floor window level, and a small cornice. The square-headed sash windows still have their original glazing bars. There are area railings in front of the property. Notably, the writer W. M. Thackeray lived here from 1846 to 1854, as indicated by a plaque from the London County Council.
Local climate
16, Young Street 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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