48 and 49, Acacia Road NW8 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Villa. 6 related planning applications.
48 and 49, Acacia Road NW8
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-granite-crow
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- 48 and 49, Acacia Road NW8, City of Westminster, NW8 6AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 269 834
- Coordinates
- 51.53612, -0.17111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
48 and 49 Acacia Road are a pair of semi-detached villas dating from approximately 1830 to 1840, built as part of the Portland Estate development in St John's Wood. The villas are constructed of stucco with a slate roof and exhibit Italianate-Grecian architectural style. They are three storeys high with a semi-basement. Each villa is two windows wide, with a one-bay entrance wing on either side. The entrance to number 48 has been altered. Number 49 features a pilastered porch facing Ordnance Hill. The windows are recessed sash windows within architrave surrounds, with cornices and consoles to the ground floor. A Doric pilaster order rises from a plat band over the semi-basement to an entablature above the first floor of the main block, followed by a panelled pilaster attic storey and bracketed flat eaves to a hipped roof. A central corniced chimney stack is present. The design is similar to other villas within the adjacent Eyre Estate.
Local climate
48 and 49, 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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