Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Railings.

Area Railings

WRENN ID
lesser-pewter-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Railings
Address
Area Railings, 8, Beccles Street E14
OS grid reference
TQ 368 810
Coordinates
51.51138, -0.02861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 8 and the area railings on Beccle Street date from the early 19th century. Originally built as two houses, they have since been combined into one. The building is constructed of stock brick and features a coped parapet. It stands three storeys tall with basements and has four windows. The door of one house has been replaced by an additional window. The south side has sash windows, while the north side features French casements. The entrance includes a round-headed, recessed six-panelled door with a fanlight above. The area railings are adorned with spearhead and urn finials.

Local climate

Area Railings 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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