Church of St Gabriel is a Grade II listed building in the Brent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Gabriel
- WRENN ID
- stranded-hammer-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brent
- Constituency
- Brent East MP: Dawn Butler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1951
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Gabriel, Walm Lane Nw2
- OS grid reference
- TQ 236 852
- Coordinates
- 51.55241, -0.21798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Gabriel, designed by architects R P Day and W Bassett Smith, was built around 1898. It features rubble ashlar dressings and tiled roofs. The church includes a chancel, a nave with a clerestory, and low side aisles. There is a west tower with an oblong plan and a sloping tiled saddleback roof. The nave has five bays and contains contemporary fittings. The church stands out among the surrounding buildings.
Local climate
Church of St Gabriel 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 98% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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