Iffley House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. A Victorian House.
Iffley House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-chamber-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Iffley House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 825
- Coordinates
- 51.52573, -0.07531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Iffley House is a building constructed in 1899, located in the Boundary Estate, Arnold Circus, E2. It is made of red brick with a ground floor of glazed brick and features a heavy stucco eaves cornice. The building has a slate mansard roof and stands four storeys high with dormers, spanning three bays in width. The ground floor includes a central casement window with a segmental arch, flanked by a semi-circular window. There is a stucco string course at the first floor sill height, with flanking canted bays that have heavy stucco dressings at the base. The windows are sashes set under segmental arches, with pedimented dormers above.
The Boundary Estate is recognized as an early London County Council estate, notable for its advanced design for the time. It features a variety of architectural details, and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate is considered to have group value, encompassing several streets including 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
Iffley 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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