26, 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.
26, Kensington Square W8
- WRENN ID
- hushed-cobble-blackthorn
- 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
- OS grid reference
- TQ 256 794
- Coordinates
- 51.50016, -0.19077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 Kensington Square is a house built around 1790. It is three storeys tall with two windows and features brown brick construction. The building has an attic with a slate mansard roof. The entrance is highlighted by a doorcase that includes an entablature supported by small fluted brackets, and it also has a fanlight above the door.
Local climate
26, 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 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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