Sunbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 7 related planning applications.
Sunbury House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-niche-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sunbury House, Swanfield Street, Boundary Estate, E2 7LE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 826
- Coordinates
- 51.52669, -0.07414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunbury House is a building from 1899 located on Swanfield Street in the Boundary Estate. The main facade faces an inner courtyard, while the end facades are oriented towards Swanfield Street and Hocker Street. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. The building features recessed bays of four storeys and dormers, with five storeys under gables. The central block consists of three bays topped with a Flemish style gable that has elaborate stone coping and a roundel. The side windows from the first to third floors are set in oriel bays, with a curved stone cornice above the centre window.
To either side of the central block, there is a recessed portion of three bays, followed by an advanced section of six bays with square turrets at each end. The centre four windows have tiled surrounds above the ground floor, with brick pilasters in between. The stone door surrounds add to the architectural detail. A further recessed single bay has one small window on each side. The ends of the building are advanced under gables, featuring two round arched windows on the ground floor that lead to a chamfered bay with three windows from the first to third 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 in Arnold Circus. The entire estate is recognized as a group, including several surrounding streets.
Local climate
Sunbury 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 — 46 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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