7-14 Chesham Place Including 2-6 Lowndes Street is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A C19 Row of houses. 38 related planning applications.
7-14 Chesham Place Including 2-6 Lowndes Street
- WRENN ID
- first-shingle-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- 7-14 Chesham Place Including 2-6 Lowndes Street, Chesham Place Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1X 8HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 280 792
- Coordinates
- 51.498, -0.15606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of houses dating from the early to mid-19th century, located in Chesham Place, with numbers 2 to 6 extending into Lowndes Street. The buildings are constructed of stucco and have slate mansard roofs. They are three storeys high, with an attic, a mansard attic, and a basement. Each house has two windows wide. The ground floor is characterised by channelling.
Numbers 2 to 6 Lowndes Street feature Doric projecting porches, with a colonnade to number 2. First-floor balconies are present on all houses except number 14 Chesham Place. The balconies are balustraded on the Lowndes Street side and have cast iron balustrades facing Chesham Place. The windows are square-headed with architraves, utilising sash windows with glazing bars. Some windows on the first floor have French casements, while some also have cornices and pediments. A dentil cornice sits above the second floor, with a simplified subsidiary cornice to the attic. A parapet tops the building, and dormers are visible in the roof. Cast iron area railings are present.
Local climate
7-14 Chesham Place Including 2-6 Lowndes Street 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 — 27 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 38 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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