Kensal House Day Nursery is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1981. A Modern Nursery. 1 related planning application.
Kensal House Day Nursery
- WRENN ID
- plain-facade-juniper
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1981
- Type
- Nursery
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Kensal House Day Nursery, Ladbroke Grove W10, W10 5BQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 238 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52544, -0.21568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kensal House Day Nursery is a day nursery built between 1936 and 1938 by architects Maxwell Fry and Grey Wornum. The structure is made of reinforced concrete and is designed to be sunken, resulting in a single storey at the rear and one storey plus a mezzanine facing the playground. It features a flat roof and a plain reinforced concrete cantilevered verandah, with continuous glazing. The nursery is an integral part of the Kensal House Complex.
Local climate
Kensal House Day Nursery 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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