Molesey House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Molesey House
- WRENN ID
- riven-vestry-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Molesey House, Camlet Street, Boundary Estate, E2 7HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 824
- Coordinates
- 51.52519, -0.07507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Molesey House is a building from 1899 located on the east side of Camlet Street in the Boundary Estate. It is constructed of red brick, with the ground floor serving as a plinth for the structure. The building features a tiled mansard roof with wide eaves soffits and is flanked by towers on either side of a central gable, which is rendered and painted cream. The gable has four bays, with two bays on each side. The building stands four storeys tall, with a dormer and a gable featuring five windows, plus a single top window above. The first and second floor windows are set in brick arched recesses, with one rank of casements and the rest being sashes with segmental arches and glazing bars. There are iron balconies across the centre of the third and fourth floors.
The Boundary Estate is an early London County Council estate known for its advanced design for the time. It showcases a variety of architectural details, with streets radiating from a central raised park at Arnold Circus. The entire estate is considered a group, including several streets such as Arnold Circus, Boundary Street, Calvert Avenue, Camlet Street, Club Row, Hocker Street, Ligonier Street, Montclare Street, Naverre Street, Old Nichol Street, Palissy Street, Rochelle Street, Swanfield Street, and Virginia Street.
Local climate
Molesey House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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