Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Office.
Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- pitched-belfry-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- East Ham MP: Sir Stephen Timms (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Council Offices, High Street E6
- OS grid reference
- TQ 426 834
- Coordinates
- 51.53202, 0.05556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former fire station, now serving as council offices, located at the corner of Nelson Street and High Street South in East Ham. It was constructed in 1913, as indicated by the date in the parapet of the tower, and designed by J E W Birch, the Borough Surveyor. This bold red brick structure features two and a half storeys with terracotta dressings and a slated roof. The front elevation has four bays, while the return elevation to the right has three bays. At the corner, there is a tapering slated cupola on the tower. The first floor is adorned with mullioned and transomed windows, and the ground floor has four rusticated segmental leaded openings. The second floor features pedimented gables, and the tower has a gabled parapet topped with obelisks. The building is listed for its group value with the nearby library and town hall.
Local climate
Council Offices 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 98% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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