Premises of Testi and Sons, Millwrights is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Industrial building.

Premises of Testi and Sons, Millwrights

WRENN ID
stranded-transept-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 February 1975
Type
Industrial building
Address
Premises of Testi and Sons, Millwrights, Waterworks Lane E5
OS grid reference
TQ 355 865
Coordinates
51.5616, -0.04578
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises of Testi and Sons, millwrights, is a mid-19th century L-shaped building constructed of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, designed in the Tudor style. It was likely originally a school but is now used for industrial purposes. The building features a single-storey north section, which may have served as a schoolroom, and a shorter two-storey south part, possibly a house. The north side has a large Tudor-arched window, while the other windows are square-headed, all with hoodmoulds. The building is topped with high-pitched tiled roofs; the house section includes a row of conjoined octagonal chimneys on the west side and a bellcote on the east. There is a gabled west porch with a Tudor-arched entrance. This structure is an interesting survival in an area that has seen a decline in population.

Local climate

Premises of Testi and Sons, Millwrights 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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