Albert Family Dwellings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Artisan flats.
Albert Family Dwellings
- WRENN ID
- strange-wall-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Artisan flats
- Address
- Albert Family Dwellings, Deal Street E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 342 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52116, -0.06689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Albert Family Dwellings, built in 1848 by William Back for the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Poor, are one of the earliest surviving examples of artisan flats. The building is constructed from stock brick and features a stucco eaves band, cornice, and blocking course. It has decorative bands at the first and third floor heights. The facade facing Deal Street consists of five storeys and a basement, with five bays where the central three are slightly advanced. The central three bays contain three-light sash windows flanked by casements, with outer sashes. The Underwood Street facade has 17 windows, with the end and center bays slightly advanced, displaying paired alternate ranks of sashes and casements. The Albert Family Dwellings, along with Nos 20 to 35 Albert Cottages and Nos 7 to 20 Victoria Cottages, form a group of different types of 19th-century artisan housing, also associated with the group on Underwood Road.
Local climate
Albert Family Dwellings 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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