540-544, Kingsland Road E2 is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. House. 9 related planning applications.

540-544, Kingsland Road E2

WRENN ID
twisted-buttress-starling
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
House
Address
540-544, Kingsland Road E2, E8 4AH
OS grid reference
TQ 335 846
Coordinates
51.54474, -0.07572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 540 to 544 on Kingsland Road are a large pair of buildings dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. They are three storeys tall, with two windows each in the main block. The buildings are constructed of stock brick and feature an altered parapet coping. They have a hipped roof that is slated with a moderate pitch and a central chimney. The windows have gauged flat brick arches and are replaced sash windows. There is a mid-19th century north wing that is two storeys tall with two windows, also featuring a parapet front with later coping and gauged flat brick arches to the sash windows. The forecourts have modern shops. Nos 540 to 570 form a group.

Local climate

540-544, Kingsland Road E2 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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