Marlow House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. House. 13 related planning applications.

Marlow House

WRENN ID
frozen-bonework-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Marlow House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate, E2 7JL
OS grid reference
TQ 335 825
Coordinates
51.5263, -0.07576
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marlow House is a building constructed in 1899, located on Arnold Circus in the Boundary Estate. It is made of red brick, with a glazed ground floor and red brick above featuring orange brick banding that widens towards the top. The building has four storeys, dormers, and an attic facing Arnold Circus. The ground floor has five bays, with four sash windows set under segmental arches. There is a door with a semi-circular arch, a chequered tympanum, and narrow flanking windows with pilasters. The building features canted oriels from the first to third floor, and between these oriels are recessed vertical panels with bipartite sash windows under segmental arches, each with double stucco keystones. The fourth floor has bays separated by brick pilasters, with windows that have semi-circular arches and stuccoed tympana. A large white stucco sill band separates one bay on the fifth floor, which contains a bipartite sash window. Above, there is a steep gable. The facade facing Calvert Avenue has seventeen windows and three sets of gables, with contemporary shop fronts on the ground floor set under a common cornice.

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 and has streets that radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate is recognized as a group, including the surrounding streets.

Local climate

Marlow House 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 — 17 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 13 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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