Bryant and May Factory, Main Building is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Factory. 154 related planning applications.
Bryant and May Factory, Main Building
- WRENN ID
- broken-pedestal-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Stratford and Bow MP: Uma Kumaran (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Bryant and May Factory, Main Building, Fairfield Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 373 832
- Coordinates
- 51.53139, -0.02084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bryant and May factory main building is a match factory constructed between 1909 and 1910. Designed by Messrs Holman and Goodsham, it is a substantial red brick building with a low-pitched roof and a concrete frame. The building is five storeys high, with two tall towers reaching ten stages each. The layout is L-shaped, enclosing two attached low wings and a tall circular chimney. Decorative plaster strips rise from the ground to a brick cornice between each bay. The windows are segmental-headed with metal frames and small panes. Each wing has a square tower containing staircases and water storage tanks for the original built-in sprinkler system, with narrower segmental windows. The top stage of these towers is corbelled out. The building is an impressive example, embodying the specialized environmental requirements needed for match manufacture.
Local climate
Bryant and May Factory, Main Building 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.
- Sale history — 139 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 154 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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