6-8, Great Eastern Street is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1993. Warehouse, offices. 4 related planning applications.
6-8, Great Eastern Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-rubble-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1993
- Type
- Warehouse, offices
- Address
- 6-8, Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3NT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 334 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52318, -0.07812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 6-8 on Great Eastern Street is a warehouse and office building dating from around 1882. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a parapetted roof. The building rises five storeys and is situated on a flat-iron site with a curved corner, displaying a two-window range on one side and a six-window range on both Great Eastern Street and the return side.
The design includes attached giant pilasters that extend through the fourth floors of the curved sections, with windows grouped under two-storey architraves. The second and fourth floor windows are round-arched. There is an entablature at the ground and second floors, along with a projecting cornice on the articulated ranges. The elevations at the far ends step down to four storeys and adopt a more utilitarian style, featuring a simple buck pier system at the rear, enhanced by stone aedicules facing Great Eastern Street.
The stone detailing is of higher quality compared to the mass-produced ornamentation found on nearby warehouses from the same period. The curved corner of the building has significant townscape value, which remains intact despite alterations to the ground floor and the insertion of new windows.
Local climate
6-8, Great Eastern Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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