15a, Kensington Palace Gardens W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. A C19 House.
15a, Kensington Palace Gardens W8
- WRENN ID
- sunken-trefoil-rook
- 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 256 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50583, -0.19112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15A Kensington Palace Gardens is a substantial house built between 1852 and 1854 by D Brandon. It is constructed of gault brick with a stucco finish and features a slated mansard roof. The building has a square elevation that consists of two storeys plus an attic and a mansard, and it is five windows wide. The ground floor windows have semi-circular heads with rusticated architraves and archivolts. There are moulded string and sill courses, along with a dentil cornice. The regular attic storey is topped with a crowning cornice, although the fretted parapet has been removed. The interior has not been seen. This building is noted in the Survey of London, Volume 37.
Local climate
15a, Kensington Palace Gardens 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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