Central Foundation Girls School is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. School. 25 related planning applications.

Central Foundation Girls School

WRENN ID
low-hearth-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
Central Foundation Girls School, Bow Road E3, E3 5AN
OS grid reference
TQ 368 827
Coordinates
51.52685, -0.02846
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Central Foundation Girls School, dating from 1897, occupies a site with educational history extending back to 1701. The building is designed in a Jacobean revival style, although with distinctive variations. The construction is primarily red brick with white stone dressings and a slate roof. A prominent turret features a gabled cupola. Doors are framed by Gibbs architraves. Decorative stone panels bear shields. Horizontal string courses run along the facade. The school is two storeys high and contains attics, generally with seven windows per elevation, presenting a variety of window types. The main entrance is located on the first floor and is accessed via a balustraded staircase, surmounted by a bracketed hood.

Local climate

Central Foundation Girls School 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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  • Related listed building consents — 25 applications
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  • 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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