Forecourt Wall and Railings to South Hackney Upper School is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Wall. 1 related planning application.
Forecourt Wall and Railings to South Hackney Upper School
- WRENN ID
- sharp-rubblework-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Forecourt Wall and Railings to South Hackney Upper School, Cassland Road E9, E9 7AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 358 845
- Coordinates
- 51.54342, -0.0421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt wall and railings to South Hackney Upper School, built around 1900, are made of red brick and feature a high plinth. The wall is punctuated by square piers topped with pedimented stone caps at regular intervals. Between these piers, the wall is lowered in deep scallops with stone coping, and the spaces are filled with wrought iron railings. In front of the central part of the building, there are simple wrought iron railings on a stone plinth. The walls extend along the eastern and western boundaries.
Local climate
Forecourt Wall and Railings to South Hackney Upper School 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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