Bow Road London Transport Underground Station is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Underground station. 18 related planning applications.
Bow Road London Transport Underground Station
- WRENN ID
- tired-cobble-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Underground station
- Address
- Bow Road London Transport Underground Station, Bow Road E3, E3 4DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 371 827
- Coordinates
- 51.5269, -0.02483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Road London Transport Underground Station is a mid to late 19th-century station located on the south side of Bow Road. The exterior features a facade made of red brick, complemented by a stone eaves cornice and a brick blocking course. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The entrance has alternate round arched doors adorned with terra cotta architraves and keystones, with a band above. The doors are panelled and include fanlights, while the windows consist of four lights.
Inside, there is an enclosed wooden bridge that crosses the platforms, along with a wooden platform canopy supported by large cast iron wall brackets. The barrel vaulted brick roof extends under the road, with the vaulting supported by cast iron beams and large cast iron pillars that run in a line, following the curve of both platforms back into the tunnel. There are 12 columns on one platform and 14 on the other, each hexagonal with engaged shafts at each angle, panelled plinths, and capitals, all painted cream.
Bow Road Underground Station, along with Nos 48-56 (even) and the front boundary wall, forms a group.
Local climate
Bow Road London Transport Underground Station 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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