Marlow House

Marlow House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065295
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Marlow House
Statutory Address:
Marlow House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065295
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1973
List Entry Name:
Marlow House
Statutory Address 1:
Marlow House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Marlow House, Arnold Circus, Boundary Estate

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33583 82575

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 February 2022 to correct street name in the last paragraph of description and to reformat text to current standards.

TQ 3382
8/71

BOUNDARY ESTATE
ARNOLD CIRCUS E2
Marlow House

GV
II
1899. Red brick, glazed on ground floor, above, red brick with orange brick banding, increasing in width to top of building. Slate roof. Four storeys and dormers and one in gables (five and attic facing Arnold Circus). Five bays at ground floor level of which four sash windows are under segmental arches. Door with semi-circular arch, chequered tympanum and narrow flanking windows with pilasters. Canted oriels from first to third floor. Between oriels, recessed vertical panel with bipartite sash windows under segmental arches with double stucco keystones. Fourth floor, bays separated by brick pilasters, windows with semi-circular arches and stuccoed tympana. Large white stucco sill band separates one bay fifth floor. Bipartite sash window. Steep gable above. Facade to Calvert Avenue seventeen windows, three sets of gables. Ground floor has contemporary shop fronts set under a common cornice.

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2.

Listing NGR: TQ3356882581

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
205728
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Marlow House

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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