St John's Schools is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. School. 2 related planning applications.
St John's Schools
- WRENN ID
- grey-moat-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- School
- Address
- St John's Schools, Scandrett Street, E1W 2UP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 346 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50373, -0.06121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Schools is a building dating from 1760, constructed of yellow stock brick. It features a parapet, a brick band above the ground and second floors, and a bracketed cornice above the first floor. The structure is three storeys high with a basement and has four windows. The central entrance bay is adorned with coupled Doric doorcases and twin niches on the first floor, which contain contemporary figures of a boy and a girl, topped with a pediment and an elliptical window in the tympanum. The windows are recessed, with segmental heads on the ground floor and semi-circular heads on the first floor.
There is an early 19th-century southern extension that is two storeys high and has five windows, with a cornice that aligns with that of the main building. This extension features a blocking course and three semi-circular windows on the first floor, which have archivolts and impost bands. The entrances are located in the end bays and are decorated with consoles and swags above. The ground floor includes a single segmental-headed three-light window in the centre.
Local climate
St John's Schools 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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