24, Kensington Palace W8 is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. A C19 Mansion. 8 related planning applications.
24, Kensington Palace W8
- WRENN ID
- tall-pier-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- 24, Kensington Palace W8, W8 4QQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 255 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50888, -0.19266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 24 Kensington Palace is a mansion built between 1845 and around 1849, designed by Owen Jones. The building is faced in stucco and features Indian style decorations. It has three storeys and is seven windows wide, with a skyline that is topped with onion domes and an open fretwork parapet. The ground floor has arched window openings with recessed frames and semi-circular heads. Above these are semi-vaults decorated with lotus leaf patterns that support a balcony on the first floor. The first floor windows are similar to those on the ground floor but smaller. The second floor features an arcade with alternating blind and glazed arches, and the chimneys are topped with ogee domes. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
24, Kensington Palace W8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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