Grosvenor Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Hotel. 20 related planning applications.
Grosvenor Hotel
- WRENN ID
- strange-spandrel-bittern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road Sw1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 288 790
- Coordinates
- 51.49565, -0.14528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grosvenor Hotel is a hotel built between 1860 and 1861 by J. T. Knowles, with carving work completed by Daymond and Sons. It is constructed of yellow brick and Bath stone, featuring a shaped slate mansard roof. The building has five storeys and is 19 bays wide, with the end pairs of bays slightly set forward and topped with pavilion roofs. The ground floor is rusticated, and there is a central entrance. Most windows are arched, except on the third floor, and feature gauged brick heads. The first floor has pilasters between the windows and carved spandrels adorned with portrait heads and naturalistic foliage. The second floor windows are corniced on carved consoles, with those in the pavilions having pediments. The fourth floor resembles the first but is lower, with a rich cornice and extensive carved decoration. There are continuous balconies on the first and second floors, both decorated with naturalistic leaf motifs. This hotel is notable for being one of the first buildings in London to utilize the French pavilion roof.
Local climate
Grosvenor Hotel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 20 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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