Woodlands House is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1949. Detached house. 11 related planning applications.
Woodlands House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-frieze-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1949
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Woodlands House, 31, Melbury Road W14, W14 8AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 248 794
- Coordinates
- 51.4999, -0.20271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands House is a detached house built in 1875 for Sir Luke Fildes by architect R Norman Shaw. It is designed in the Queen Anne style with a picturesque composition. The building has an 'L' shaped plan, featuring an advanced three-storey wing on the right with two main bays, and a recessed two-storey wing on the left, also with two main bays. The façade includes long sashed windows framed by brick pilasters, an eaves cornice, and a pitched hipped roof. There is a cupola on the left and a dormer on the right, along with a roof balustrade and tall chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Woodlands 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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