Salvation Army Hostel is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Hostel. 2 related planning applications.
Salvation Army Hostel
- WRENN ID
- third-turret-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- Salvation Army Hostel, Garford Street E14, E14 8JG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 371 806
- Coordinates
- 51.5084, -0.02475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Salvation Army Hostel, built in 1905 by Niven and Wigglesworth, is designed in a Neo-Georgian style. It features stock brick with red brick dressings and has a steeply pitched hipped slate roof with a brick eaves cornice. A cupola with a clock and weather vane crowns the building. The hostel is two storeys high with dormers and has five windows, flanked by an advanced portion with a door on each side. The dormers have hipped roofs, while the windows below are adorned with moulded architraves and semi-circular drip moulds above, which act as pediments. The door bays are accentuated with flanking pilasters that have Ionic capitals and swags above. The entire ground floor is constructed of rusticated brick below the sill height. The doors are embellished with heavily moulded archivolts featuring keys and are panelled with semi-circular heads. The listed buildings on both sides of Garford Street are connected by the 19th-century roadway surface and form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Salvation Army Hostel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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