Cabmen's Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Shelter.
Cabmen's Shelter
- WRENN ID
- scarred-belfry-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Shelter
- Address
- Cabmen's Shelter, Kensington Road Sw7, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 262 796
- Coordinates
- 51.50165, -0.1831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cabmen's Shelter, built in 1888, is a timber-framed structure featuring tongue and groove timber panels and a felt-clad timber roof. It measures seven bays by three bays, with the entrance located at the center of the north side. Windows are positioned in the upper wall of the second, fourth, and sixth bays. The roof has a stump of a fleche and decorative rafter ends at the eaves. This shelter is one of the earliest surviving examples, constructed by the Cabmen's Shelter Fund.
Local climate
Cabmen's Shelter 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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