Porter's House (former Laundry). is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House.
Porter's House (former Laundry).
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cupola-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Porter's House (former Laundry)., Montclare Street, Boundary Estate
- OS grid reference
- TQ 337 824
- Coordinates
- 51.52556, -0.07387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Porter's House, formerly a laundry, was built in 1899 and is located on the west side of Montclare Street in the Boundary Estate. This building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped tiled roof that curves to the eaves. It has paired chimney stacks that are joined by arches and a long row of dormers in the roof. The wide eaves soffit is adorned with modillions and a dentil cornice below.
The building is two storeys high, with five windows on the front. The first-floor windows are two-light, featuring mullions and a transom with leaded glazing and stucco dressings. A brick string course runs below the sill height. On the ground floor, there are two six-light windows flanking a central door, which has a fanlight and a Tudor arch above it.
At the rear, there is a hexagonal brick boilerhouse chimney that rises from a square plinth. The top of the chimney is topped with a wide stuccoed cornice and has a band of blind arcading below.
The Boundary Estate is an early London County Council estate known for its advanced design for the time. It features a variety of architectural details, with streets radiating from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The estate is a cohesive group that includes several streets, such as Arnold Circus, Boundary Street, Calvert Avenue, and others.
Local climate
Porter's House (former Laundry). 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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