Boundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Boundary wall. 4 related planning applications.
Boundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary School
- WRENN ID
- gentle-wattle-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Boundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary School, Virginia Road, Boundary Estate, E2 7NQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 826
- Coordinates
- 51.5267, -0.07497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary School were built in 1899. This school boundary wall is constructed of stock brick, featuring red and blue brick and white stone dressings. It includes entrances with flat stone lintels and quoins, and is complemented by wrought iron gates. The wall also extends along Hocker Street.
The Boundary Estate, where this wall is located, 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 considered a cohesive group, including several streets such as 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
Boundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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