23, Acacia Road NW8 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Villa. 1 related planning application.
23, Acacia Road NW8
- WRENN ID
- veiled-rafter-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 23, Acacia Road NW8, City of Westminster, NW8 6AN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 270 835
- Coordinates
- 51.53656, -0.16966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This detached villa, located at 23 Acacia Road in St John's Wood, dates from approximately 1830 to 1840 and was constructed as part of the Portland Estate villa development. The building is stuccoed with a channelled basement and has a slate roof. It exhibits Italianate-Grecian architectural styling, featuring two storeys above a semi-basement. It is three windows wide. A flight of steps leads to the left-hand side entrance, which has a console-corniced and architraved surround to the panelled door and fanlight. The ground floor windows are recessed sashes with margin glazing, set within molded stucco architraves with cornices supported by consoles. Pilasters of the Doric order rise from a plat band just above the semi-basement to a frieze beneath the flat eaves of the low-pitched hipped roof; corniced chimney stacks are positioned to either side. Cast iron guards with a geometric patterned design are present on the windows. A single-bay gig house wing is set back to the left. The design is similar to other villas in the adjacent Eyre Estate.
Local climate
23, Acacia Road NW8 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 — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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