68-82, Fifth Avenue W10 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terrace. 6 related planning applications.

68-82, Fifth Avenue W10

WRENN ID
endless-cloister-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Queen's Park and Maida Vale MP: Georgia Gould (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1987
Type
Terrace
Address
68-82, Fifth Avenue W10, Queen's Park, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 241 826
Coordinates
51.52925, -0.21133
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a terrace of houses built in 1880 by Austin and Roland Plumbe for the Queen's Park Estate, designed to provide housing for artisans, labourers, and general residents. The terrace, numbered 68 to 82, is constructed from yellow brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with irregular red brick detailing. The roof is covered in Welsh slate with decorative fish-scale tiling to the tower area.

The terrace comprises two storeys, with each house featuring two bays, and a two-bay projecting end block to the south, topped with a pyramidal roof and forming a tower feature. The architectural style is Free Gothic. Each house has a gabled porch supported by corbels, containing a pair of entrances with half-glazed doors and overlights, all set beneath red brick arches. A ceramic date plaque is set into the gable of the porch, and there's painted brick coping. The windows are paired sashes, with colonettes separating them, and painted lintels. Some upper sashes include margin lights, with sills resting on corbels and painted lintels. A moulded brick eaves course runs along the top of the building, and there is corniced stack detailing. The southern end house has an entrance on its return wall and is prominently treated as part of the tower, featuring paired sashes on both floors and a pyramidal roof topped with a finial.

The terrace, alongside numbers 67-81, 83-97, and 84-98, creates a balanced group of terraces, with tower features at both ends and contributing to the main streetscape of the larger Queen's Park Estate.

Local climate

68-82, Fifth Avenue W10 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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  • Sale history — 13 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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