40, Kensington Square W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. House. 1 related planning application.
40, Kensington Square W8
- WRENN ID
- tenth-attic-tide
- 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
- House
- Address
- 40, Kensington Square W8, W8 5RJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 257 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50097, -0.19041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 Kensington Square is a house built in the early 18th century. It has four storeys and features three windows, constructed of brown brick with red dressings and brick bands. The building has undergone later alterations, including a parapet with small recessed panel decoration, a stuccoed ground floor, and an early Victorian balcony on the first floor with French windows. A plaque from the London County Council notes that Sir John Simon, a pioneer of public health, lived here from 1816 to 1904.
Local climate
40, Kensington Square 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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