16, Prescot Street E1 is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
16, Prescot Street E1
- WRENN ID
- tilted-sandstone-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16, Prescot Street E1, E1 8AZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 339 809
- Coordinates
- 51.51147, -0.07064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 Prescot Street is a building from the last half of the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, featuring blue brick and stucco dressings. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, showcasing a large eaves cornice and chimneys topped with decorative caps. The building stands three storeys high with a basement and has six windows. The windows on the ground and first floors are round-headed unbarred sashes, with two lights on the first floor and three lights on the second floor, separated by interval bays adorned with stucco columns. The right-hand bay is slightly advanced, while the left-hand bay features panelled double doors that are accessed by steps.
Local climate
16, Prescot Street E1 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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