3, Kensington Church Street W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1973. House. 6 related planning applications.

3, Kensington Church Street W8

WRENN ID
upper-steeple-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 October 1973
Type
House
Address
3, Kensington Church Street W8, W8 4LB
OS grid reference
TQ 256 797
Coordinates
51.50267, -0.19154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 3 Kensington Church Street is an 18th-century house of four storeys. It is constructed of stock brick, with red brick arches over the windows, which are flat-headed. The windows are spaced in groups of three and have C19 sash glazing. A shop front was added in the Edwardian period. The building is topped by a parapet.

Local climate

3, Kensington Church Street 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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