55 and 57, Melbury Road W14 is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1961. A Victorian Houses. 18 related planning applications.
55 and 57, Melbury Road W14
- WRENN ID
- stranded-plaster-primrose
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1961
- Type
- Houses
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 793
- Coordinates
- 51.49908, -0.20128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses, numbers 55 and 57 Melbury Road, London W14, dating from the late 19th century and designed by Halsey Ricardo. The houses were originally listed as numbers 15 and 17. They are three storeys high with a basement, and each house has three windows. The construction is of brown glazed brick, topped with a wooden corbel cornice. Number 57 has a pair of dormers.
Local climate
55 and 57, Melbury Road W14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 18 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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