Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1950. House. 8 related planning applications.
Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-lead-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bridge House, 26, Prestons Road E14, E14 9QW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 383 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50432, -0.00815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge House is an early 19th-century building located on Prestons Road. It is constructed of stock brick and features a low pitched slate roof with wide overhanging eaves. The building has two storeys and a basement, with three windows that include sashes with glazing bars and plain reveals. There are bow windows on both the east and west sides. The entrance is accentuated by a Doric porch, which is designed in antis and includes a triglyph frieze and cornice.
Local climate
Bridge 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 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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