Gate Piers and Iron Railings at Columbia Market Nursery School is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Gate piers, iron railings.
Gate Piers and Iron Railings at Columbia Market Nursery School
- WRENN ID
- graven-pinnacle-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Gate piers, iron railings
- Address
- Gate Piers and Iron Railings at Columbia Market Nursery School, Columbia Road E2, E2 7PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 827
- Coordinates
- 51.52827, -0.07413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gate piers and iron railings at Columbia Market Nursery School date from the mid to late 19th century. The gate piers are made of polished grey granite topped with white stone caps. A lion holding a shield is positioned on the western pier, while the other piers support bases for iron lamp standards. The entrance features iron gates, and there are damaged cast iron railings that extend from a low wall, which is rendered and also capped with white stone.
Local climate
Gate Piers and Iron Railings at Columbia Market Nursery 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 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 sale records on file
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