Academy Fitness Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1994. Former school, fitness centre. 20 related planning applications.
Academy Fitness Centre
- WRENN ID
- under-chamber-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1994
- Type
- Former school, fitness centre
- Address
- Academy Fitness Centre, Hoxton Square
- OS grid reference
- TQ 331 827
- Coordinates
- 51.52823, -0.08163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, now a fitness centre, was originally a school constructed circa 1865-70 as part of the Augustinian Fathers' Mission centre in Hoxton. It is a stock brick structure with red brick bands and some stone dressings, originally topped with a flat roof hidden behind railings that served as a playground. The building has a square plan and stands three storeys high, accommodating boys, girls, and infants, each with their own entrance. The central composition is divided by a projecting buttress clad in black brick, culminating in a cross and surmounted by a narrow gable set between the rooftop railings. Each half of the building is symmetrical, featuring a tall two-light casement window centrally placed, flanked by single, tall casement windows, all with round heads. The lower floor windows have gauged brickwork above, while the second-floor windows have rendered tympanums over the larger openings. Projecting cast-iron downpipes with hopper heads at each end of the building balance the central buttress. Entrance doors are sheltered by porches supported on heavy timber consoles.
Local climate
Academy Fitness Centre 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 — 17 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 20 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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