Area Railings at No 20 is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. A Early C18 Railings.

Area Railings at No 20

WRENN ID
sheer-crypt-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
Railings
Address
Area Railings at No 20, Fournier Street E1
OS grid reference
TQ 338 817
Coordinates
51.51918, -0.07224
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 20 on Fournier Street is an early 18th-century building featuring brown brick with red brick dressings and a weatherboarded attic. It has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with three windows that sit under segmental arches. The windows are unbarred sashes with flush frames. The entrance is marked by a wooden doorcase that has fluted pilasters and an architrave, which rises in the center to a dentilled cornice. The property also includes area railings.

This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 39 (odd), Nos 2 to 20 (even), and No 84 (The Ten Bells Public House), as well as Christ Church on Commercial Street, and Nos 57 and 59 Brick Lane, along with No 2 Wilkes Street.

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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