27, Great Tower Street EC3 is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Commercial building. 8 related planning applications.
27, Great Tower Street EC3
- WRENN ID
- still-cinder-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1977
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 27, Great Tower Street EC3, City and County of the City of London, EC3R 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 332 807
- Coordinates
- 51.50957, -0.08077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 27 Great Tower Street, EC3, is a commercial property dated 1914. It is three storeys high with dormers set into a tiled mansard roof. The building has five windows. It is constructed of red brick with raked joints, featuring Portland stone dressings and designed in a style reminiscent of the late 17th century. The ground floor is channelled and includes a pedimented stone doorway leading to a passage on the west side. Ionic pilasters define the two upper storeys, with a stone entablature and brick parapet above. The parapet sweeps upwards centrally on either side of a narrow attic or lucarne, which is topped by a segmental pediment. A return window displays the date "1914".
Local climate
27, Great Tower Street EC3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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