21, Acacia Road NW8 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. Villa.
21, Acacia Road NW8
- WRENN ID
- swift-spire-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 21, Acacia Road NW8, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 270 835
- Coordinates
- 51.53637, -0.1699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 Acacia Road is a detached villa built around 1830-1840 as part of the Portland Estate's St John's Wood villa development. The building features a stucco exterior with a channelled basement and a slate roof, showcasing an Italianate-Grecian style. It stands two storeys tall above a semi-basement and is three windows wide. There is a flight of steps on the left leading to an altered door framed by an architrave. The windows are recessed sashes with margin glazing, set in moulded architraves that have anthemion-enriched heads on the ground floor and valances on the first floor. The villa is adorned with an enriched order of pilasters that rise from a plat band over the semi-basement to a frieze beneath the elaborately bracketed eaves of the low-pitched hipped roof, which is flanked by corniced chimney stacks. The windows also have cast iron guards decorated with palmettes. To the left, there is a one-bay gig house wing that is set back. This villa type is similar to the adjoining Eyre Estate.
Local climate
21, 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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