Toynbee Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Hall. 8 related planning applications.
Toynbee Hall
- WRENN ID
- burning-cellar-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Toynbee Hall, 28, Commercial Street E1, E1 6LS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 338 815
- Coordinates
- 51.5168, -0.07228
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toynbee Hall is a late 19th-century building designed by the architect Hoole. It is constructed of red brick with stucco dressings and features a gabled roof. The chimneys rise from a band at the first-floor sill height and break through the gables. The main northern section has two storeys and four windows, all with stucco dressings. The large lower windows have mullions and transoms and are fitted with leaded glazing. Above these, there are two one-light sashes. The central recessed part is styled similarly, while the southern block is at right angles and consists of two and one storeys. A small clock tower caps the western end of the building. Toynbee Hall is grouped with later modern buildings around a courtyard garden.
Local climate
Toynbee Hall 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 8 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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