2-18, Thurloe Street SW7 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1974. Terraced houses. 13 related planning applications.

2-18, Thurloe Street SW7

WRENN ID
buried-frieze-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1974
Type
Terraced houses
Address
2-18, Thurloe Street SW7, SW7 2ST
OS grid reference
TQ 269 788
Coordinates
51.49439, -0.17295
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a row of terraced houses on Thurloe Street, dating from the mid-19th century. The houses are constructed of stucco and are two storeys high with a basement. Each house is two windows wide. The ground floor is rusticated, with Ionic porches and four-light French casements featuring projecting balconies. Numbers 8, 10, and 12 have projecting iron balconies to the first floor and raised attics, and the attics are also raised at numbers 2, 6, and 14. The building is topped by a balustraded parapet, with area railings in front.

Local climate

2-18, Thurloe Street SW7 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 13 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. South Kensington Subway Grade II 53 m
  2. South Kensington Underground Station Grade II 88 m
  3. 16 and 18, Pelham Place SW7 Grade II 144 m
  4. K2 Telephone Kiosk Grade II 144 m
  5. 5, Cromwell Place SW7 Grade II 144 m
  6. Two K6 telephone boxes in front of the Victoria and Albert Museum Grade II 204 m
  7. Entrance Arch to Park House Between Numbers 7 and 11 Grade II 207 m
  8. 7, North Terrace SW3 Grade II 218 m
  9. 8, 9 and 10, North Terrace SW3 Grade II 232 m
  10. 11, North Terrace SW3 Grade II 243 m