Byron Villa Shakspere Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1974. Villa. 4 related planning applications.

Byron Villa Shakspere Villa

WRENN ID
graven-dormer-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wandsworth
Constituency
Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1974
Type
Villa
Address
Byron Villa Shakspere Villa, 445, Battersea Park Road Sw11, SW11 4LR
OS grid reference
TQ 276 764
Coordinates
51.47258, -0.16288
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Byron Villa and Shakspere Villa are a pair of mid-19th century houses located on Battersea Park Road. They each have three storeys and a basement, with a gabled front. Each house is three windows wide, featuring one window on the second floor. The buildings are constructed of stock brick, with stucco applied to the basement. Notable stucco details on the upper floors include a bandcourse above the ground floor, a distinctive scalloped frieze, and a cornice at the gable. The ground and second floors have round-arched openings, while the first floor has segmental openings.

Local climate

Byron Villa Shakspere Villa 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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