Shelter House is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1995. Shelter house.
Shelter House
- WRENN ID
- odd-cellar-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1995
- Type
- Shelter house
- Address
- Shelter House, Millfields Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 359 861
- Coordinates
- 51.55825, -0.04087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shelter House is a building constructed between 1900 and 1901 by architects Gordon and Gunton for Hackney Borough Council. It was designed to accommodate people while their belongings were being cleansed. The building is two stories high, made of red brick with stone detailing, and features an Arts and Crafts style. It has a high, hipped roof topped with a central stack, covered with modern concrete tiles. The windows are mullion and transom style, and there are arched openings on the left and right, each adorned with decorative iron railings and a curved stone hood above. The building is flanked by swollen stone buttresses on either side. Additionally, it has twin gables that display a blind oeil-de-boeuf motif in stone. Shelter House is listed for its group value with the disinfecting station.
Local climate
Shelter House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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