Sunbury Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Workshop. 2 related planning applications.
Sunbury Workshops
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pinnacle-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Sunbury Workshops, Swanfield Street, Boundary Estate, E2 7LE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 826
- Coordinates
- 51.52683, -0.07421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunbury Workshops, built in 1899, is located at the rear or north side of Sunbury House. This structure consists of eight units, each containing four workshops. It is constructed from red brick and features low-pitched gabled slate roofs. The building is two storeys high, with each of the eight units having central doors on both floors, supported by a beam above for loading, and large windows with glazing bars on either side.
The Boundary Estate, where Sunbury Workshops is situated, is one of the early London County Council estates, notable for its advanced design for the time. It showcases a variety of architectural details and has streets that radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate is recognized as a group, including the following streets: Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2, and Virginia Street E2.
Local climate
Sunbury Workshops 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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