Playground wall at Rochelle Street Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Boundary wall.
Playground wall at Rochelle Street Primary School
- WRENN ID
- long-parapet-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Playground wall at Rochelle Street Primary School, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 825
- Coordinates
- 51.52563, -0.0746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The playground wall at Rochelle Street Primary School, built in 1899, is a boundary wall made of panelled yellow brick with red brick dressings and white stone caps on the interval piers. The wall also extends along Club Row. This wall is part of the Boundary Estate, an early London County Council estate known for its advanced design for the time. The estate features a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus, forming a cohesive group with several surrounding streets.
Local climate
Playground wall at Rochelle Street 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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