Former Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Police station.
Former Police Station
- WRENN ID
- tired-ledge-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Former Police Station, Commercial Street E1, E1 6NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 335 820
- Coordinates
- 51.52181, -0.07638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Police Station, built between 1874 and 1875 and designed by architect F H Cougier, is located on Commercial Street in London. This three-storey building with an attic is constructed of red brick and features stone dressings. The ground floor has channelled masonry panels beneath the windows. The façade consists of 11 bays, with the end windows arranged in pairs. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there is a string course running along the building. The central doorway is framed by rusticated pilasters and has an advanced cornice that forms a hood above. The door is panelled and topped with a radial fanlight. This building is part of a group that includes No 142 (The Commercial Public House) and Nos 144 to 146 opposite.
Local climate
Former Police Station 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 1, ELDER STREET E1 (See details for further address information)
- 1 and 3, Elder Street E1
- 5 and 7, Elder Street E1
- The Commercial Public House
- Bedford House, Formerly the Bedford Institute Association
- Street Lamp Affixed to Wall of No 26
- 15, Elder Street E1
- 24, Elder Street E1
- 28 and 30, Elder Street E1
- 17, Elder Street E1