27, Folgate Street E1 is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House.

27, Folgate Street E1

WRENN ID
ruined-pavement-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
OS grid reference
TQ 335 819
Coordinates
51.52097, -0.07708
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 27 Folgate Street is a building dating from around 1725 that has been rebuilt using yellow stock bricks. It stands three storeys tall with a basement and features three windows. The roof is not visible, and there is a coped parapet. The building has sash windows, which are replacements, set within segmental arches. The doorway is in a plain, round-headed recessed arch and includes a plain fanlight along with a fluted architrave that has corner medallions. This building is part of a group that includes the road surface of Folgate Street, specifically Nos 5 to 11 (odd), 11A, Nos 17 to 21 (odd), and Nos 6 to 18 (even).

Local climate

27, Folgate Street E1 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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