The Commercial Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Commercial Public House
- WRENN ID
- tall-zinc-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Commercial Public House, 142, Commercial Street E1, E1 6NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52161, -0.07567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Commercial Public House is a building dating from around 1865, located on Commercial Street at an important corner site with Wheler Street. It is constructed of white brick with painted stucco dressings, and while the roof is not visible, the building stands three storeys high. It features a panelled frieze with a bracketed cornice and a blocking course that rises over a name sign with finials.
The design includes five corner windows and two end bays, with paired windows on the top floor and triple windows on the first floor. Rusticated pilasters frame the end bays. The top floor windows are adorned with architraves and bracketed labels and sills, while the first floor windows are round arched with enriched stucco arches and architraves, featuring masks in medallion keystones. Enriched impost bands with lions' heads are also present. The pub front showcases Corinthian pilasters, and there is stucco and cast iron cresting above.
The Commercial Public House, along with Nos 144 to 146, forms a group with the former Police Station located opposite.
Local climate
The Commercial Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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