1-16, Albert Gardens and area railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 15 related planning applications.

1-16, Albert Gardens and area railings

WRENN ID
weathered-sandstone-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
1-16, Albert Gardens and area railings, London, E1 0LH
OS grid reference
TQ 355 810
Coordinates
51.51237, -0.04767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 1 to 16 Albert Gardens, built in the early 19th century, are constructed of stock brick and feature a band above the ground floor. The buildings rise three storeys with basements and have two windows on each facade. The windows are recessed sashes with glazing bars, while those on the ground floor have semi-circular heads set in double recesses. The doorways are adorned with quarter or three-quarter Doric columns. Notably, there are fine wrought iron area railings with pineapple finials serving Nos 5 to 16. These buildings are part of a group with Nos 495 to 529 (odd) Commercial Road.

Local climate

1-16, Albert Gardens and area railings 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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