47, Melbury Road W14 is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1963. House. 9 related planning applications.

47, Melbury Road W14

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1963
Type
House
Address
47, Melbury Road W14, W14 8AD
OS grid reference
TQ 249 793
Coordinates
51.49929, -0.20149
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 47 Melbury Road is a house designed by R D Oliver for Walford Graham Robertson in 1893, reflecting a late 17th-century style. The building has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, featuring six windows. It is constructed of red brick, accented with a stone string course and quoins. The roof is slate, and the windows are casement style. The two central windows project forward and are topped with a pediment. The doorway is located off-center within this projection.

Local climate

47, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 9 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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