Area Railings at No 20 is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Railings. 7 related planning applications.
Area Railings at No 20
- WRENN ID
- bitter-garret-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Railings
- Address
- Area Railings at No 20, St Mathews Row E2, E2 6DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 341 825
- Coordinates
- 51.52565, -0.06766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These early 19th-century area railings are located at number 20 in St Matthews Row. A plaque reading "St Mathews House" is set into the entrance floor tiles. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick, with the ground floor grooved and rendered. It features a parapet with a cornice and a hipped roof. The building is two storeys and has a basement, with five windows on the front elevation. These windows are sash windows, each set beneath a gothic arch with a keystone. The side elevation, which faces the churchyard, has ten windows, largely with gothic glazing bars. A gothic arch provides access to the doorway from St Matthews Row, featuring a keystone and plain impost caps. The iron area railings are ornamented with spearhead finials and four round-headed decorative panels. The listed buildings in St Matthews Row are considered to form a group with the Parish Watch House, Wood’s Close.
Local climate
Area Railings at No 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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