Cheyne House Little Cheyne House is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. A Victorian House.

Cheyne House Little Cheyne House

WRENN ID
haunted-chapel-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1969
Type
House
Period
Victorian
Address
Cheyne House Little Cheyne House, 59, Royal Hospital Road Sw3
OS grid reference
TQ 275 777
Coordinates
51.48398, -0.1638
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cheyne House, also known as Little Cheyne House, is a house built in 1876 by architect Richard Norman Shaw. It stands three storeys tall with dormers and features seven windows on the north side, six on the west, and eight on the south. The south side includes a three-window splay bay to the left and a three-window projection with an extra storey. The house is constructed of red brick and has a coved cornice at the eaves, along with a tiled roof. A moulded brick band is present at the sills of the second-floor windows. Cheyne House incorporates No 15, Little Cheyne House, which is the northern portion of this group.

Local climate

Cheyne House Little Cheyne 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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