Cavalry House, Duke of Yorks Headquarters is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1998. Barracks, offices. 3 related planning applications.
Cavalry House, Duke of Yorks Headquarters
- WRENN ID
- roaming-cobble-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1998
- Type
- Barracks, offices
- Address
- Cavalry House, Duke of Yorks Headquarters, Kings Road Sw3, SW3 4SQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 280 783
- Coordinates
- 51.48988, -0.15772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cavalry House, part of the Duke of York's Headquarters, is a cavalry barracks that has been converted into offices. It was built in the early to mid-19th century and was completely rebuilt internally around 1994. The exterior is made of yellow stock brick with rubbed brick and limestone detailing, featuring brick ridge stacks, although the roof is not visible. The building is designed in a late Georgian style and has a single-depth plan.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a 19-window range, with a symmetrical front. The design includes two-window sections, with one window from the end set forward. The ground floor features a blind round-arched arcade with imposts and moulded archivolts. There are cill bands on the first and second floors, along with a string and cornice at the blocking course. The central entrance has a flat-headed raised surround that is set forward, with a cornice and a keyed round-arched doorway that leads to a recessed late 20th-century door. The ground floor has rubbed brick round-arched and flat-arched upper floor 6/6-pane sash windows.
Although the interior has been completely rebuilt, Cavalry House remains an intact example of one of the few barracks constructed between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, and it contributes to a significant group with the Duke of York's Headquarters.
Local climate
Cavalry House, Duke of Yorks Headquarters 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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