Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. A Late C18 Railings. 4 related planning applications.
Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- sheer-eave-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Railings
- Address
- Area Railings, 17 and 20, Alie Street E1, E1 8DE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 338 811
- Coordinates
- 51.51362, -0.07191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The area railings at 17 and 20 Alie Street, built in the late 18th century, are notable for their brick construction, with the ground floor featuring a stuccoed parapet and a tiled mansard roof. A stucco band runs along the sill height of the first floor. The building has three storeys, a basement, and dormers, with an arched entrance to Half Moon Passage located in the center of the ground floor. The ground floor windows of Nos 17 and 20 are all sash windows, most of which have glazing bars, while the top two floors of No 20 feature casement windows. The entrances are panelled doors with round-headed, recessed designs in the passage, and No 20 includes a fanlight. The wrought iron railings are topped with urn finials. Nos 9 to 25 (odd) form a group with Nos 28 to 44 (even).
Local climate
Area Railings 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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