5, Kensington Square W8 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1970. House. 5 related planning applications.
5, Kensington Square W8
- WRENN ID
- muffled-step-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Kensington Square W8, W8 5EP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 257 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50082, -0.18934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 5 Kensington Square is a house built around 1876 in Flemish style. It has five storeys and a basement, featuring three windows on the main facade and two additional windows in the gable. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and has a slated mansard roof. The shaped gable displays the year 1876 in a stone cartouche. A brick dentil cornice is supported by flanking pilasters that rise the full height of the building. The recessed sash windows are topped with gauged flat brick arches, brick aprons, and segmental pediments on the first floor. The central window on the second floor features a pediment and a cartouche inscribed with "HP." There is a continuous bracketted wrought iron balcony at the first floor level, and a blocked doorway is topped with a bracketted pedimented door hood. The property is enclosed by cast iron railings.
Local climate
5, Kensington Square 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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