1, Craven Hill W2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Villa.
1, Craven Hill W2
- WRENN ID
- heavy-outpost-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 1, Craven Hill W2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 264 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51319, -0.17969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached villa located at 1 Craven Hill, built in the mid-19th century and recently restored. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stucco dressings and features a slated lipped roof. It stands three storeys high with a basement and is three windows wide, with an additional three-storey recessed wing on each side. The design is symmetrical, with channelled stucco on the ground floor. A central projecting porch with pilasters leads to a solid-sided panelled door. The ground floor windows have pilastered surrounds, while the first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, each with stucco balconies. Above the first floor, there is a plain stucco band, and the upper windows are unmarked. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, and there is an eaves cornice.
Local climate
1, Craven Hill 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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