36-42, Lancaster Gate W2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. A Victorian Terrace of houses. 22 related planning applications.
36-42, Lancaster Gate W2
- WRENN ID
- old-bailey-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 36-42, Lancaster Gate W2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 263 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51264, -0.18058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a grand terrace of six houses, numbers 36 to 42, located on the north side of Lancaster Gate in London. Dating from 1865, they were designed by John Johnson. The houses are constructed of stucco with a slate mansard roof. They are four storeys high, with an attic mansard level. The ground floor is rusticated. Each house features paired projecting porches with rusticated columns. A balustraded balcony runs along the front of the first floor. The windows are generally square-headed, except those on the first floor, which are round-headed. They are sash windows with plate glass. The facades have dentil cornices above the first-floor windows, which project over those windows. Cornices are also present above the second-floor windows. The windows have architraves. A rich frieze and console cornice adorns the area above the third-floor windows. The terrace has a balustraded parapet; this is present on houses 41 and 42, but is missing from the other houses. The terrace forms part of the planned layout for Lancaster Gate.
Local climate
36-42, Lancaster Gate W2 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 22 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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