Fairfield Match Works is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Industrial building. 7 related planning applications.
Fairfield Match Works
- WRENN ID
- tattered-flint-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Fairfield Match Works, 2, Fairfield Road E3, E3 2UB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 372 831
- Coordinates
- 51.53101, -0.022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairfield Match Works, Building No. 2, is a red brick building dating from 1867. It has a slate roof with decorative banding and an irregular shape. The building is two storeys high with a gable end. A ground floor bay features a parapet. A round-headed doorway and window, featuring glazing bars and a fanlight, are located on the west side. A datestone is set within the tympanum above the central two-light window. The buildings and walls of the listed section of Fairfield Match Works form a group of importance in the social and economic history of Bow.
Local climate
Fairfield Match Works 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 96% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 101 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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