Hall of St Leonard's Children's Home is a Grade II listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. Children's home.
Hall of St Leonard's Children's Home
- WRENN ID
- floating-glass-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Romford MP: Andrew Rosindell (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Children's home
- Address
- Hall of St Leonard's Children's Home, 117, Hornchurch Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 529 872
- Coordinates
- 51.56326, 0.20456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hall of St Leonard's Children's Home, built in 1887, is constructed of red brick with tiled roofs. It is particularly notable for the sculptural group above the main entrance, which is made of artificial stone and dates from the early 19th century. This sculpture features a woman flanked by a boy and a girl on a plinth adorned with swags. Originally, it was located in a niche over the entrance to a parochial school that was rebuilt in either 1801 or 1806 on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch. The sculpture was moved to its current location in 1887 and is inscribed with 'Van Spangen and Powell', 'Mile End', referring to a terracotta manufactory that was established to compete with Coade and Sealy.
Local climate
Hall of St Leonard's Children's Home sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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