Raine's Foundation School is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. School. 10 related planning applications.

Raine's Foundation School

WRENN ID
worn-beam-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
Raine's Foundation School, Arbour Square E1
OS grid reference
TQ 356 813
Coordinates
51.51438, -0.04702
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Raine’s Foundation School is represented by the surviving facade of the original building, now incorporated into a modern school. The facade preserves two original sculpted figures of a boy and a girl, along with the original tablet inscribed "Come in and learn your duty to God and Man, 1719." These elements originated from the first Raine’s School, which was located on Raine Street, Wapping. The building is listed primarily for the significance of these figures and tablet. The listed buildings of Arbour Square form a group with numbers 3 to 19, East Arbour Street.

Local climate

Raine's Foundation 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 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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  • 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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