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History of Tower Hamlets · Historic England

Tower Hamlets is home to a World Heritage Site: Tower of London

Historic England lists 923 buildings inside Tower Hamlets’s built-up area, 30 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 10 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 61 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Tower Hamlets grades B for history: #25 of 33 in London.

21Grade I39Grade II*10scheduled monuments17on Fournier Street E1
Listed buildings
923
30 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
21
exceptional interest
Grade II*
39
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
10
5 registered parks & gardens
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Tower Hamlets in 70 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Chapel of St Peter Ad VinculaChapel of St Peter Ad VinculaGrade I listedThe White TowerThe White TowerGrade I listedPriory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalPriory and Hospital of St Mary SpitalScheduled monumentThe Crown Public HouseThe Crown Public HouseGrade II listedBandstand at Boundary Street GardenBandstand at Boundary Street GardenGrade II listed+65See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Tower Hamlets’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Arnold Circus, Bethnal Green, registered park or gardenBethnal Green Gardens, registered park or gardenIsland Gardens, registered park or gardenThe Novo Cemetery, registered park or gardenVictoria Park, registered park or gardenBonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal, scheduled monumentLondon Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway, scheduled monumentLondon Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP, scheduled monumentPriory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, scheduled monumentRoman Bath House, Shadwell, scheduled monumentSite of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern, scheduled monumentThe Roman riverside wall and wharves at Three Quays, scheduled monumentThree Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane, scheduled monumentTower Hill West, scheduled monumentTower of London, scheduled monumentBalfron Tower, Grade II*Bethnal Green Museum, Grade II*Blind Beggar and His Dog Cranbrook Estate, Grade II*Brick Lane Jamme Masjid (Former Neuve Eglise), Grade II*Bromley Hall, Grade II*Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church (formerly Trinity Methodist Church), including attached hall, church rooms, residential accommodation and walls, Grade II*Christ Church, Grade II*Christchurch Rectory, 2 Fournier Street and area railings, Grade II*Church of St Anne (Roman Catholic), Grade II*Church of St George (German Lutheran Church and Vestry), Grade II*Church of St Mary Stratford Bow, Grade II*Church of St Matthew, Grade II*Church of St Matthias, Grade II*Church of St Paul, Grade II*Church of St Paul, Grade II*East India Dock House, former Financial Times Print Works, Grade II*Hoop and Grapes Public House, Grade II*Isle of Dogs Pumping Station, including transformer house, paving, bollards and surrounding wall to the west and south, Grade II*Keeling House Bethnal Green, Grade II*London Hydraulic Power Company Station with Number 37, Grade II*Phoenix School, Grade II*Railings and Gate with Overthrow at No 37, Grade II*Raine's House, Grade II*Revetment Wall to South Side of Moat, From Tower Bridge Approach to Middle Tower (Qv), Grade II*St Augustine with St Philip's Church, Grade II*The Directors' House, Truman Brewery, Grade II*The Merchant Navy Memorial, Second World War section, Grade II*The Old Hospital Block and Raised Terrace and Railings, Grade II*The Royal Foundation of St Katharine, Grade II*The Royal Mint, Grade II*The Widow's Son Public House, Grade II*War memorial to the children of Upper North Street School, Grade II*Whitechapel Art Gallery, Grade II*Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, 2 Fieldgate Street and workshops to the rear, Grade II*Wilton's Music Hall, Grade II*17-18, Victoria Park Square E2, Grade II*19, Princelet Street E1, Grade II*26, Tredegar Square, Grade II*46, Aldgate High Street EC3, Grade II*A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending under Wapping Lane, Grade IBlackwall Basin, Grade IChapel of St Peter Ad Vincula, Grade IChrist Church (Including Gatepiers and Gates to Vergers Yard), Grade IChurch of St Anne, Grade IChurch of St George in the East, Grade IChurch of St John on Bethnal Green, Grade IChurch of St Peter, Grade IOuter Curtain Wall with Casements and Mural Towers, Grade IParish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas), Grade IPortion of Old London Wall, Grade IQuay Walls,Copings and Butresses to Import Dock and Export Dock, Grade IThe Merchant Navy Memorial, First World War section, Grade IThe Middle Tower, With Causeway to Byward Tower (Qv) and Remains of Causeway to Lion Tower to West, Grade IThe White Tower, Grade ITower Bridge (That Part in London Borough of Tower Hamlets), Grade ITower Bridge Approach, Grade ITower of London (Inner curtain wall with mural towers, the New Armouries, the King's House and Tower Green), Grade ITrinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) Including Gates, Railings, Wall and Piers, Grade IWarehouses and General Offices at Western End of North Quay, Grade I56, Artillery Lane E1, Grade I
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden400 m from Church of St Peter ad Vincula
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
9 of 21Grade I buildings stand within 400 m of Church of St Peter ad Vincula, a five-minute walk. So do 34 of the 923 listed buildings.
7 of 171neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 79% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

923 listed buildings by grade
21 Grade I39 Grade II*863 Grade II

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Grade I

The 21 Grade I listed buildings in Tower Hamlets

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings; 9 of these stand within 400 m of Church of St Peter ad Vincula. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Walls & gates · listed 1973Tower BridgeOn the list as Tower Bridge (That Part in London Borough of Tower Hamlets)Photo: Barcex · CC BY-SA 3.0
House · listed 1989White TowerOn the list as The White TowerPhoto: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Inns & shops · listed 1950Tobacco DockOn the list as A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending under Wapping LanePhoto: Sue Wallace · CC BY 2.0
Walls & gates · listed 1950Christ Church, SpitalfieldsOn the list as Christ Church (Including Gatepiers and Gates to Vergers Yard)Photo: Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Church · listed 1950St Anne's LimehouseOn the list as Church of St AnnePhoto: Amanda Slater from Coventry, West Midlands, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church · listed 1950St George in the EastOn the list as Church of St George in the EastPhoto: Martin Klussmann. The original uploader was Klusiwurm · Public domain
Church · listed 1949St John on Bethnal GreenOn the list as Church of St John on Bethnal GreenPhoto: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church · listed 1950St Dunstan's, StepneyOn the list as Parish Church of St Dunstan and All Saints (The Church of the High Seas)Photo: Gordon Joly · CC BY-SA 3.0
House · listed 1989Middle TowerOn the list as The Middle Tower, With Causeway to Byward Tower (Qv) and Remains of Causeway to Lion Tower to WestPhoto: Dirk Ingo Franke · CC BY-SA 3.0
Walls & gates · listed 1950Trinity Green AlmshousesOn the list as Trinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) Including Gates, Railings, Wall and PiersPhoto: Friends of Trinity Green · CC BY-SA 4.0
Grade II*

The 39 Grade II* listed buildings in Tower Hamlets

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 38 are photographed.

Public · listed 1973Young V&AOn the list as Bethnal Green MuseumPhoto: Bex Walton · CC BY 4.0
House · listed 1998Blind Beggar and His DogOn the list as Blind Beggar and His Dog Cranbrook EstatePhoto: Chris McKenna · CC BY-SA 4.0
House · listed 1950Brick Lane MasjidOn the list as Brick Lane Jamme Masjid (Former Neuve Eglise)Photo: Bobulous · CC BY-SA 4.0
Walls & gates · listed 1998Trinity Independent ChapelOn the list as Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church (formerly Trinity Methodist Church), including attached hall, church rooms, residential accommodation and wallsPhoto: Doyle of London · CC BY-SA 4.0
Street furniture · listed 1950Christchurch RectoryOn the list as Christchurch Rectory, 2 Fournier Street and area railingsPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church · listed 1950Bow ChurchOn the list as Church of St Mary Stratford BowPhoto: Gordon Joly · CC BY-SA 4.0
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House · listed 2016Global Switch London NorthOn the list as East India Dock House, former Financial Times Print WorksPhoto: Beata May · CC BY-SA 4.0
Inns & shops · listed 1950Hoop and GrapesOn the list as Hoop and Grapes Public HousePhoto: Ewan Munro from London, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Walls & gates · listed 2017Isle of Dogs Pumping StationOn the list as Isle of Dogs Pumping Station, including transformer house, paving, bollards and surrounding wall to the west and southPhoto: Stephen Richards · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1993Keeling HouseOn the list as Keeling House Bethnal GreenPhoto: Matt Biddulph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Public · listed 1989Hospital BlockOn the list as The Old Hospital Block and Raised Terrace and RailingsPhoto: APK · CC BY 4.0
House · listed 1973Former Royal MintOn the list as The Royal MintPhoto: Julie Cookson · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1950Whitechapel Bell FoundryOn the list as Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32-34 Whitechapel Road, 2 Fieldgate Street and workshops to the rearPhoto: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0
Historic streets

Fournier Street E1 has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Fournier Street E117 listed
Commercial Road E1412 listed
Artillery Passage E111 listed
Elder Street E110 listed
Princelet Street E19 listed · 1 II*
19, Princelet Street E1
Mile End Road E18 listed
Hackney Road E27 listed
Mountague Place7 listed
Aberavon Road E36 listed
Bow Road E36 listed
Coborn Street E36 listed
Narrow Street E146 listed

Of the 923 entries, 332 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Tower Hamlets’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas487
Walls, gates & bridges121
Public & civic buildings94
Inns, shops & warehouses73
Street furniture61
Churches, chapels & priories50
Memorials, crosses & tombs37

487 entries (53%) are houses, terraces and villas. 50 are churches, chapels and priories, including 6 of the 21 Grade I buildings.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

863 Grade II listed buildings

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

The first 150 of 863 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
A Warehouse, Metropolitan WharfA and E Warehouses, St John's WharvesA,B,C and D Warehouse, King Henry's WharvesAbingdon HouseAccumulator Tower and ChimneyAccumulator Tower on the West Side of Poplar DockAccumulator Tower to South East Corner of Poplar DockAdministration Building at Queen Mary College (University of London)Air Shaft to the Rotherhithe TunnelAlbert CottagesAlbert Family DwellingsAlbert Stern House (Formerly Beth Holim) and Annex to RearAlbion Brewery (Entrance Block)Alderman Stairs and gate piersAll Saints Church with St FrideswideAll Saints RectoryAnonymous Sarcophagus Approximately 7 Metres East of St George's RectoryArch At Bromley-By-Bow Health CentreArchway to Rotherhithe Tunnel ApproachArea RailingsArea RailingsArea RailingsArea RailingsArea RailingsArea RailingsArea Railings at 8 and 10Area Railings at No 12Area Railings at No 14Area Railings at No 20Area Railings at No 20Area Railings at No 4Area Railings at No 6Area Railings at Nos 16 and 18B and C Warehouse,Metropolitan WharfBandstand at Boundary Street GardenBasterfield House including steps to gardenBedford House, Formerly the Bedford Institute AssociationBenson HouseBethnal Green LibraryBethnal Green Museum Statue in Forecourt the Eagle SlayerBethnal Green War MemorialBethnal Green Working Mens ClubBlack Eagle BreweryBlack Horse Public HouseBlack Sea HouseBlackwall River Police StationBollards at Dock Entrance to Newcastle Draw DockBoundary Wall and Gate Piers to St Katharine's DockBoundary Wall to Road at Fairfield Match WorksBoundary Wall to Tower Hamlets CemeteryBoundary Wall, Gates and Gate Piers to Tower Hamlets CemeteryBoundary wall and gates at Virginia Primary SchoolBow Road London Transport Underground StationBraithwaite ViaductBrewmaster's House, Trumans BreweryBrick Lane Jamme Masjid (Former School and Vestry to Neuve Eglise)Bridge HouseBritish Sailors SocietyBritish Waterways Customs House on West Quay of Regent's Canal Dock EntranceBritish and Foreign Wharves G WarehouseBromley Public HallBrown Bear Public HouseBryant and May Factory, Main BuildingBryant and May War MemorialBurrell's Wharf Office Block to South East of Main Gate and Works Range to South with Chimney StackBurrell's Wharf,The 3 Works Ranges West of the Main Entrance Yard Including South West Corner Chimney StackBust of Edward VIIC and L StorageCarnegie LibraryCarradale HouseCascadesCast Iron Lamp Standards in Forecourt of the Royal MintCattle and Horse Drinking Trough (On Pavement in Front of Drinking Fountain)Central Foundation Girls SchoolChalice FoundationChandlery HouseChertsey HouseChrisp Street Market Clock TowerChrist Church Primary School and Attached RailingsChristchurch School Drinking FountainChurch Yard Walls, Railings, Gates and Gate Piers at St Anne's ChurchChurch of St James the LessChurch of St MaryChurch of St Mary and St JosephChurch of St Mary and St MichaelChurch of St Michael and All AngelsChurch of St Patrick (Roman Catholic)Church of St Paul with St StephenChurch of St PeterChurch of St SavioursChurch of the English MartyrsChurchyard War Memorial at Church of St Anne'sChurchyard and Rectory Wall at Church of St George in the EastClergy House of St Peter's ChurchClifton HouseClock TowerCockney Eel and Pie ShopColumbia Market Nursery SchoolCommemorative Plaque on Stone PlinthCookham HouseCoopers' Company's SchoolCorbetts Wharf Warehouse Between Wapping Dock Street and Wapping LaneCoroner's Court and three piers immediately in frontCulham HouseD Warehouse, Metropolitan WharfDarul Ummah Community Centre (Former Lower Chapman Street School) Including Former School Keeper's House, Cookery Block and Playground ShelterDavenant Foundation SchoolDavenant Foundation School (Rear Block)Department of Health and Social SecurityDevonshire CottageDockmaster's OfficeDowgate Wharf P B Burgoyne and Company Limited WarehouseDrapers Almshouses and ChapelDrinking FountainDrinking FountainDrinking FountainDrinking Fountain (In the Boundary Wall of Christ Church Churchyard)Drinking Fountain (Opposite Bardsey Place of Entrance to Jubilee Street)Drinking Fountain (Under Railway Bridge at Junction with Lowell Street)Drinking Fountain Set in Wall of Former St Mary's ChurchyardDrinking Fountain and Clock Tower at Queen Mary College (University of London)Dry Dock at Blackwall EngineeringDunbar Wharf - Four warehouses numbered 136, 136½, 138, 140, Narrrow StreetDurham VillaE, F, G, H Warehouse, New Crane WharfE. Pellicci CafeEast Block with Attached Railings and Gatepiers Peabody EstateEast India Dock Boundary WallEast India Dock Pumping StationEast India Dock Wall and GatewayEastern Counties Railway London ViaductEastern Counties Railway London ViaductEmbankment Wall, Railings and StepsEngineer's House, Truman's BreweryEntrance Building to Greenwich Footway TunnelEntrance Gates to West India DocksEntrance GatewayEntrance Lodges at the Royal MintFairfield Match WorksFairfield Match WorksFairfield Match WorksFairfield Match WorksFairfield Match Works (Bryant and May)Fire StationFire Station CottagesFitch and Sons WorksFlagged Passage (Approaching Stone Stairs from the Highway)Flying Horse Public HouseFootbridge (Between the Basin and East Dock Water Areas)Forecourt Wall and Gate Piers at the Central Foundation School for Girls

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Conservation areas

67 conservation areas cover 27% of Tower Hamlets

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Brick Lane and Fournier Street35 ha
The Tower32 ha
Victoria Park31 ha
Tredegar Square 197120 ha
Lansbury20 ha
York Square20 ha
Fairfield Road19 ha
Tower Hamlets Cemetery19 ha
Wapping Wall17 ha
Stepney Green16 ha
Regent's Canal16 ha
Hackney Road 200813 ha
Chapel House12 ha
Bethnal Green Gardens12 ha
Medway12 ha
Wapping Pierhead11 ha
Fish Island11 ha
Narrow Street11 ha
Driffield Road10 ha
Limehouse Cut9 ha
Albert Gardens9 ha
Carlton Square9 ha
Jesus Hospital Estate9 ha
Island Gardens9 ha
St Anne's Church9 ha
520 hain conservation areas, of 1,901 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Tredegar Square, was designated in 1971; the newest, Hackney Road, in 2009. 793 of the 923 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

How the list grew

More than half of Tower Hamlets’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1973

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1973 · 5191950 · 85
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 7 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 21 Grade I buildings among them. 519 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 31 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

World Heritage

Maritime GreenwichUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone
Tower of LondonUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town

10 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal
London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
Roman Bath House, Shadwell
Site of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern
Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane
Tower of London

5 registered parks and gardens

Arnold Circus, Bethnal Green
Island Gardens
The Novo Cemetery
Victoria ParkGrade II*
History Grade

Tower Hamlets grades B for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (1,030 points, 33 per 10,000 residents)More than 72% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 33% of UK towns

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Born here

181 notable people born in Tower Hamlets before 1900

The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.

Joan of The Tower
Joan of England
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Newport
Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp
Richard Mead
John Hoppner
Mary Wollstonecraft
James Wimshurst
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Richard Knill Freeman
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
Sarah Chapman
W. W. Jacobs
John Gray (poet)
Jim Bellamy
Donald Crisp
Albert Oldman
William Peacock
Lillian Hall-Davis
13501500165018001950
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797 · English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser1552–1599 · English poet (c. 1552–1599)
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp1882–1974 · English film actor and film director (1882–1974)
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson1836–1917 · English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
JT
Joan of The Tower1321–1362 · Queen of Scotland
W. W. Jacobs
W. W. Jacobs1863–1943 · English author of short stories and novels (1863–1943)
John Hoppner
John Hoppner1758–1810 · British painter (1758-1810)
Richard Mead
Richard Mead1673–1754 · British physician (1673-1754)

Everyone born in Tower Hamlets → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Tower Hamlets

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Tower Hamlets311,07292321B
City of London7,82058783A+
Hackney258,4645438A−
Southwark307,0769104A−
Newham351,0651174B+
Islington216,3091,02412A
Lewisham300,7643572A−
Greenwich288,11752424B+
In brief

Tower Hamlets in brief

Tower Hamlets holds part of a World Heritage Site, Tower of London. All told, the list holds 923 listed buildings, 21 of them Grade I, including Tower Bridge. Church of St Peter ad Vincula sits at the heart of it all, with 9 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Its older streets lie in 67 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971.

Of the whole list, 53% are houses, terraces and villas. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Edmund Spenser (1552) and Donald Crisp (1882) are among the 181 people born here before 1900. It also has 10 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Tower Hamlets’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Tower Hamlets?

Historic England lists 923 buildings inside Tower Hamlets’s built-up area: 21 Grade I, 39 Grade II* and 863 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Tower Hamlets?

21, including A Warehouse (Skin Floor) Including Vaults Extending under Wapping Lane, Blackwall Basin, Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula, Christ Church (Including Gatepiers and Gates to Vergers Yard), Church of St Anne and Church of St George in the East.

Which street in Tower Hamlets has the most listed buildings?

Fournier Street E1 (17), Commercial Road E14 (12) and Artillery Passage E1 (11) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Tower Hamlets?

Yes, 10 scheduled monuments, including Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal, London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway, London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP and Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital.

Is Tower Hamlets a World Heritage Site?

Tower Hamlets is home to part or all of Tower of London, inscribed by UNESCO. It also touches the area Historic England maps for Maritime Greenwich, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.

How many conservation areas are there in Tower Hamlets?

67, covering about 520 hectares of the town. The largest are Brick Lane and Fournier Street and The Tower.

When were Tower Hamlets’s buildings listed?

The first in 1949; the most, 519, in 1973.

Who was born in Tower Hamlets?

Among people born before 1900: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Edmund Spenser (1552), Donald Crisp (1882), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836) and Joan of The Tower (1321).

How old are the homes in Tower Hamlets?

12% of homes were built before 1919 and 16% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

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