The Greyhound Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1970. A C19 Public house. 11 related planning applications.

The Greyhound Public House

WRENN ID
hallowed-chimney-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1970
Type
Public house
Address
The Greyhound Public House, 1, Kensington Square W8, W8 5EP
OS grid reference
TQ 257 795
Coordinates
51.50109, -0.18928
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Greyhound Public House is a public house built around 1899 in the Italianate style. It was rebuilt in 1979 and features three storeys with a double front and three window bays. The exterior is made of yellow stock brick with stucco dressings. The building has a parapet adorned with urn finials and a pedimented centre that includes flanking scrolls and a cartouche displaying "The Greyhound" along with the year 1899 in the tympanum. A dentil cornice is supported by brick pilasters. The windows have gauged flat red brick arches, with red brick aprons on the second floor. The first floor features splayed window bays with pilaster mullions and pedimented centres. The ground floor has a recessed frontage with pilasters that support an entablature, and a central bay window is flanked by entrances.

Local climate

The Greyhound Public 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 11 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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