6, Wilkes Street E1 is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1969. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
6, Wilkes Street E1
- WRENN ID
- sombre-granite-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1969
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 6, Wilkes Street E1, E1 6QF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 337 818
- Coordinates
- 51.51963, -0.0733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century building on Wilkes Street in London. It is constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings, and features a wooden fascia board above the ground floor. The building is three storeys high with a dormer window, and has five windows arranged under segmental arches. The windows are sash windows with flush frames and glazing bars, with shutters to the ground-floor openings. A wooden doorcase is present, featuring pilasters and shaped brackets. No. 6 is part of a group with Nos. 2 and 4 Princelet Street.
Local climate
6, Wilkes 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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