Keeling House Bethnal Green is a Grade II* listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1993. A Post-war Residential. 34 related planning applications.
Keeling House Bethnal Green
- WRENN ID
- half-transept-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1993
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Post-war
- Address
- Keeling House Bethnal Green, Claredale Street, E2 6PG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 345 831
- Coordinates
- 51.53087, -0.06105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeling House is a residential 'cluster' block built between 1957 and 1959, designed in 1955 by Sir Denys Lasdun. This significant example of post-war housing embodies Lasdun’s ideas on urban renewal. The building is sixteen storeys high and comprises 56 two-storey maisonettes and 8 single-storey studio flats arranged around a core containing stairs, lifts and activity areas. It consists of four subsidiary towers linked by this central core. The structure is reinforced concrete, initially faced with Portland stone aggregate pre-cast panels, though the surface is now painted. The elevations express the pattern of semi-detached maisonettes with a regular rhythm of solid balconies alternating with the narrower horizontal elements of the bedroom floors. The fifth residential floor is occupied by flats, which is also apparent in the elevation’s rhythm.
Local climate
Keeling House Bethnal Green 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 — 183 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 34 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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