Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. A C19 Former police station.

Area Railings

WRENN ID
pale-casement-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Former police station
Address
Area Railings, 116, Bow Road E3
OS grid reference
TQ 375 828
Coordinates
51.528, -0.0191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 116 on Bow Road is a building from the first half of the 19th century. It features yellow stock brick, a hipped slate roof with a brick cornice, and rusticated brick corners. The building is three stories tall and has three windows, all of which are sash windows with glazing bars. The windows are arched and have labels supported by brackets above them. The first floor windows have unusual brick architraves with an archivolt. The entrance includes a rusticated brick doorcase, steps, and area railings. This building serves as a focal point at the end of Fairfield Road and was formerly a police station.

Local climate

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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