Orsett House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Victorian Villa. 9 related planning applications.
Orsett House
- WRENN ID
- over-plaster-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Orsett House, 1, Orsett Terrace W2, City of Westminster, W2 6AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 261 814
- Coordinates
- 51.51786, -0.18328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orsett House is a detached villa built between 1843 and 1848 in the Italianate style by George Ledwell-Taylor. The house is stucco-faced with a leaded mansard roof. It is two storeys high, with an attic mansard and basement, and is arranged with three bays, the central bay being wider and slightly projecting, topped with a segmental pediment containing a thermal window. Rusticated quoins define the corners. The central entrance is within a tripartite columnar porch, featuring waterleaf capitals and a solid balustrade above and leading to a panelled door. The ground floor windows are square-headed and architraved, with cornices. Some windows are metal casements, while others are sash windows with glazing bars. A dentil cornice runs above the first floor, with a smaller cornice below the attic. A two-storey segmental bow window is present on the return. The property is bordered by cast iron area railings.
Local climate
Orsett House 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 — 17 transactions since 1996
- 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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