Benson House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Benson House
- WRENN ID
- western-lead-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Benson House, Ligonier Street, Boundary Estate, E2 7HH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 335 824
- Coordinates
- 51.52501, -0.07606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benson House is a building from 1899 located on Ligonier Street in the Boundary Estate. It is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof and features a bracketed eaves cornice. The building stands four storeys tall with dormers and five storeys under gables, with the center two bays under a hipped roof. It has a total of eighteen windows, which are sash types with one, two, and three lights, mostly topped with segmental arches. The windows on the first to third floors, including those in the gables and center two bays, are set in shallow brick arches, while the fourth-floor windows have individual brick arches. Each side has a flanking window rank that ends in a flat cornice, which forms a wheeler to the gable ends, and there is a blind window above. All dormers are designed with hipped roofs.
The Boundary Estate is recognized as an early London County Council estate known for its advanced design for the time. It showcases a variety of architectural details and features streets that radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The estate as a whole is significant and includes several surrounding streets.
Local climate
Benson House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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