Cabmen's Shelter in Centre of Road Outside Oratory House is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 June 1988. Shelter. 31 related planning applications.

Cabmen's Shelter in Centre of Road Outside Oratory House

WRENN ID
half-joist-dawn
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
Address
Cabmen's Shelter in Centre of Road Outside Oratory House, Thurloe Place, SW7 2RU
OS grid reference
TQ 270 790
Coordinates
51.49622, -0.17054
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A cabmen's shelter, erected in 1897 to a design of 1882 by the architect Maximilian Clarke, stands in the centre of the road outside Oratory House. It is a timber-framed structure with timber cladding and overlapping timber boards to the low-pitched, half-hipped roof, featuring overhanging eaves. The shelter is single-storied and comprises seven bays by three bays, with an entrance on the south-west end. The timber frame is expressed with panels of vertical boarding set between horizontal and vertical members. Three square-headed windows with six panes and glazing bars are positioned on each side, each with pivoting lights above and fretwork panels below the eaves. Louvred gablets are present at each end, and a square louvre with a tented rooflet is in the centre of the roof. This is a rare, intact surviving example of this design.

Local climate

Cabmen's Shelter in Centre of Road Outside Oratory House 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 — 8 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 31 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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