St Pauls Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Townhouse.
St Pauls Rectory
- WRENN ID
- frozen-grate-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1983
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- St Pauls Rectory, 298, the Highway E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 352 807
- Coordinates
- 51.5095, -0.05291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Paul's Rectory is a town house built around 1820, featuring three storeys and constructed from stock brick. It has a broad three-bay front, with the basement walls and first-floor platband stuccoed, as well as the flat arches of the windows. The building is topped with a thin band cornice and a parapet with coping, and it has coped gable ends concealing a slate roof. The windows are revealed glazing bar sashes.
The entrance, located to the right on the ground floor, features a tripartite glazing bar with sidelights and panelled risers, all within a stucco reveal that has an arched top. The door consists of six moulded panels and has a moulded door head, topped by a large semi-circular fanlight divided vertically by thin glazing bars. The arch above the door is made of gauged brickwork.
In front of the building, there is an area with cast iron spearhead railings supported by urn standards, set on a dwarf stone wall that curves into the doorway, with a corresponding short flanking section curving out to the right. There is also a rear extension dating from around 1870 to 1880. The rectory is of interest due to its group value with St Paul's Church and Church House, located on The Highway.
Local climate
St Pauls Rectory 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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