Alhambra Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Alhambra Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-step-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Alhambra Cottage, 9, Boundary Road Nw8, City of Westminster, NW8 0DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 264 838
- Coordinates
- 51.53958, -0.17772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alhambra Cottage is a detached villa dating to approximately 1840. It is constructed of stucco with a slate roof, and designed in an Islamic style. The house is two storeys high with a basement, and comprises three main bays, with the left bay projecting. The central entrance features a square head and decorative architrave. The right bay has windows with horseshoe arches. The ground floor centre window and the window on the left side have stilted semi-circular arches, flanked by smaller blind arches with intervening coupled columns; the window above has a square head and decorative architrave. Decorative cusps are present on the ground floor windows, which have metal glazing bars with coloured glass and casements. A decorative band runs between the two storeys, and there is decorative coving to the eaves.
Local climate
Alhambra Cottage 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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