Arbour House, E1

Block in/near Stepney Green, existing between 1937 and now

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July
3
2024
Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor.

It is a 6-storey block containing 61 dwellings. Built in 1937, it is on the north side of Arbour Square and part of the Clichy Estate.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
St Dunstan’s and All Saints Church St Dunstan’s, Stepney is an Anglican church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

NEARBY STREETS
Adam Meere House, E1 Adam Meere House is located on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Albert Gardens, E1 Albert Gardens, an almost intact late-Georgian residential square (Shadwell)
All Saints Court, E1 All Saints Court (together with St Mary’s Clergy House) is a symmetrical group with gabled wings and cut-away corner balconies (Shadwell)
Ann Street, E1 Ann Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Anne Goodman House, E1 Anne Goodman House is sited on Jubilee Street (Stepney Green)
Antcliff Street, E1 Antcliff Street was probably built by William Antcliff of Newham Street (Stepney)
Antcliffe Street, E1 Antcliffe Street formerly ran off Bromehead Road (Stepney)
Antill Terrace, E1 Antill Terrace was built off of Senrab Street (then Barbour Gardens) around 1865 (Stepney Green)
Apsley House, E1 Apsley House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Apsley Street, E1 Apsley Street was off Redman’s Road (Stepney Green)
Arbour House, E1 Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor (Stepney Green)
Arbour Square, E1 Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Armsby House, E1 Armsby House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Arta House, E1 Arta House is a block on Devonport Street (Shadwell)
Athlone House, E1 Athlone House is a block on Sidney Street (Stepney)
Avis Square, E1 Avis Square was created in 1961 (Stepney Green)
Aylward Street, E1 Aylward Street has a complicated history (Stepney Green)
Baltonsborough Court, E1 Baltonsborough Court is located on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Barnardo Gardens, E1W Barnardo Gardens was created as local streets were swept away post-war (Shadwell)
Barnardo Street, E1 Dr Thomas John Barnardo founded a boy’s orphanage in Stepney Causeway (Shadwell)
Beckett House, E1 Beckett House is part of a three block complex facing Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Bekesbourne Street, E14 Bekesbourne Street is one of the streets of London in the E14 postal area (Limehouse)
Belgrave Street, E1 Belgrave Street connects Stepney High Street with Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Bere Street, Bere Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Bermuda Street, E1 Bermuda Street was an old East End street (Stepney Green)
Bewley Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Shadwell)
Bill Faust House, E1 Bill Faust House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Billing House, E1 Billing House is a block on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Bladen House, E1 Bladen House is a block on Dunelm Street (Stepney Green)
Blakesley Street, Lower John Street was renamed to Blakesley Street, E1 in 1865 (Shadwell)
Boisseau House, E1 Boisseau House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Boulcott Street, E1W Boulcott Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Bower Street, E1 Bower Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Brayford Square, E1 Brayford Square is a small shopping area from 1978 (Stepney Green)
Brinsley House, E1 Brinsley House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Brodlove Lane, E1W Brodlove Lane is a road in the E1W postcode area (Shadwell)
Bromehead Road, E1 Bromehead Road is a location in London (Stepney)
Bromehead Street, E1 A vestige remains of Bromehead Street, formerly a main connecting street of the area (Stepney)
Bromley Street, E1 Bromley Street was built between 1829 and 1843 by Daniel Goody (Stepney Green)
Brook Street, E1 Brook Street was an old name for this section of Cable Street (Ratcliff)
Bull’s Buildings, E1W Bull’s Buildings was a close off White Horse Street (Ratcliff)
Burley House, E1 Burley House is part of the Mountmorres Estate (Stepney Green)
Butcher Row, E1W Butcher Row is a road in the E1W postcode area (Limehouse)
Caroline Street, E1 Caroline Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Chalkwell House, E1 Chalkwell House can be found on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Chamberlain House, E1 Chamberlain House probably dates from the 1960s (Shadwell)
Chudleigh Street, E1 Chudleigh Street was called Albany Street until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Clark Street, E1 Clark Street is a long and old street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Clearbrook Way, E1 Clearbrook Way is a modern cul-de-sac, running west off West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Clichy House, E1 Clichy House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Clovelly Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Coburg Dwellings, E1 Coburg Dwellings is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Colverson House, E1 Colverson House is a block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Commercial Road East, Commercial Road East is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Copley Street, E1 Copley Street now runs south from Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Cornwood Drive, E1 Cornwood Drive runs off Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Corrigham House, E1 Corrigham House is a block on Pitsea Street (Ratcliff)
Cosmo Apartments, E1 Cosmo Apartments is sited on Westport Street (Shadwell)
Cowley Street, Cowley Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Cranford Street, E1W Cranford Street is a road in the E1W postcode area (Ratcliff)
Dagobert House, E1 Dagobert House is a block on Smithy Street (Stepney)
Dame Colet House, E1 Dame Colet House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Dean House, E1 Dean House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Dean Street, Cross Street became Dean Street in 1865 (4777) (Shadwell)
Deancross Street, E1 Deancross Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Dempsey Street, E1 Dempsey Street was created before 1830 along with surrounding streets (Stepney Green)
Devonport Street, E1 Devonport Street connects Commercial Road and Cable Street (Shadwell)
Diggon Street, E1 Diggon Street is now a small remnant cul-de-sac off Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Donovan House, E1 Donovan House probably dates from the 1960s (Shadwell)
Dowson House, E1 Dowson House is located on Commercial Road (Shadwell)
Drake House, E1 Drake House can be found on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Drewton Street, E1 Drewton Street was previously James Street (Shadwell)
Dundalk House, E1 Dundalk House faces Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Dunelm Street, E1 Fair Street was renamed Dunelm Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Dunstan Place, E1W Dunstan Place first appeared on the 1830 map, replacing an area called Globe Yard (Ratcliff)
Durham Row, E1 Durham Row is a path leading west from White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
East Arbour Street, E1 East Arbour Street leads north from Arbour Square (Stepney Green)
Edith Ramsey House, E1 Edith Ramsey House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Edward Mann Close East, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Ratcliff)
Elf Row, E1W A street within the E1W postcode (Shadwell)
Ellen Julia Court, E1 Ellen Julia Court is a block on James Voller Way (Shadwell)
Ellis Court, E1 Ellis Court is a block on James Voller Way (Shadwell)
Exmouth Court, E1 Exmouth Court appears on the 1900 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Place, E1 Exmouth Place is on the 1860 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Street, E1 Exmouth Street was largely destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by residential blocks on the Clicky Estate (Stepney)
Fair Street, E1 Fair Street ran from Oxford Street to Charles Street (Stepney Green)
Fisher House, E1 Fisher House probably dates from the 1960s (Shadwell)
Foley House, E1 Foley House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Garden Street, E1 Garden Street lies to the rear of what was called ’King John’s Palace’ (Stepney Green)
Gardom Street, E1 Gardom Street was a former street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
George Scott House, E1 George Scott House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Glasshouse Fields, E1W Glasshouse Fields was Glasshouse Street until 1862 (Shadwell)
Glasshouse Street, E1W Glasshouse Street was renamed Glasshouse Fields in 1862 (Shadwell)
Gold Street, E1 Prospect Place was renamed as Gold Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Gosling House, E1 Gosling House is a block near to the Martineau Estate (Shadwell)
Grosvenor Street, E1 Grosvenor Street was renamed Mountmorres Road in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Hardinge Lane, E1W Hardinge Lane is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Hardinge Street, E1W Hardinge Street existed in the 1750s or before as St George’s Path (Shadwell)
Harriott House, E1 Harriott House is a block on Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Havering Street, E1 Havering Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Hawkins Street, E1 Hawkins Street is an old East End street, appearing on maps during the 1840s (Stepney)
Head Street, E1 Head Street replaced Heath Street in 1938 (Shadwell)
Heath Street, E1 Heath Street was the location of a rope walk by the beginning of the nineteenth century (Stepney Green)
Ikøn House, E1W Ikøn House is sited on Cable Street (Shadwell)
Jamaica Street, E1 Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street (Stepney)
James Place, James Place is an old East End street (Shadwell)
James Voller Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Shadwell)
Jarman House, E1 Jarman House, Beckett House and Wingrand House were built as a single block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Jean Pardies House, E1 Jean Pardies House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
John Bowles Court, E1W John Bowles Court is a block on Schoolhouse Lane (Shadwell)
Johnny Andrews House, E1 Johnny Andrews House is a block on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Johns Place, E1 Despite a post-war expansion of the road name, Johns Place is an older street of Stepney (Stepney)
Johnson Street, E1 Johnson Street first appears as John Street on 1820s mapping, but not on 1810s maps (Shadwell)
Jubilee Street, E1 Jubilee Street was built off the then-new Commercial Road and named to commemorate the Jubilee of George III in 1810. (Stepney Green)
Justice Apartments, E1 Justice Apartments is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Kerry House, E1 Kerry House is a block on the southern part of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
King John Street, E1 King John Street leads off Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was one of two King Streets in Stepney, the other being nearer to Bethnal Green (Stepney)
Lady Micos Almshouses, E1 Lady Micos Almshouses offers lodgings exclusively for women in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Lake Street, E1 Lake Street was at first called Thomas Street (Shadwell)
Latham House, E1 Latham House is a block on Chudleigh Street (Stepney Green)
Lavender House, E1 Lavender House is a block on Commercial Road (Ratcliff)
Le Moal House, E1 Le Moal House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Len Bishop Court, E1W Len Bishop Court is a block on Schoolhouse Lane (Ratcliff)
Levitas House, E1 Levitas House are flats situated on Jubilee Street, dating from 2020 (Stepney Green)
Lighterman Mews, E1 Lighterman Mews is 1990s development (Stepney Green)
Longford House, E1 Longford House is a one of a number of Irish county themed blocks dating from the late 1950s (Stepney)
Louise De Marillac House, E1 Louise De Marillac House is a block on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Love Lane, Love Lane is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Lucas Street, Lucas Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Lukin Street, E1 Lukin Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Malthouse Apartments, E1 Malthouse Apartments is a block on Caroline Street (Shadwell)
Marshgate House, E1 Marshgate House is a building on Bromehead Street (Stepney)
Martha Street, E1 Martha Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Mayo House, E1 Mayo House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Montpelier Place, E1 Montpelier Place is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Moore House, E1 Moore House is a block on the Martineau Estate (Shadwell)
Morton Close, E1 This is a street in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Mountmorres Road, E1 Grosvenor Street was called Mountmorres Road after 1939 (Stepney Green)
Musbury Street, E1 Musbury Street is a street of post-war blocks of flats (Stepney Green)
New Belvedere House, E1 New Belvedere House is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Newbold Cottages, E1 Newbold Cottages is a block in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Newbold Street, E1 First appearing on the 1870 map, Newbold Street disappeared during the post-war rebuilding of the area (Stepney Green)
Odette Duval House, E1 Odette Duval House is a 9-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Stepney)
Ogilvie House, E1 Ogilvie House is a block on Stepney Causeway (Ratcliff)
Old Church Road, E1 Old Church Road originally extended north from Commercial Road to Stepney Way, opposite St Dunstan’s Church. (Shadwell)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Pattison House, E1 Pattison House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Pattison Street, E1 Pattison Street ran southeast from a junction with Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Perth Street, E1 Perth Street was created as St Vincent Street during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Pevensey House, E1 Pevensey House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Pinchin Johnsons Yard, E1W Pinchin Johnsons Yard is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Pitsea Street, E1 Pitsea Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Ratcliff)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Poonah Street, E1 Poonah Street first appears as a name in 1891 (Shadwell)
Portland Street, E1 Portland Street was replaced by Westport Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Powlesland Court, E1 Powlesland Court is a block on White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Princes Street, E1 Princes Street appeared on the 1750s Rocque map but was into surrounding streetnames soon afterwards (Shadwell)
Princes Street, E1 Princes Street was a former name for the northern section of Dempsey Street (Stepney)
Railton House, E1 Railton House is a block on Arbour Square (Shadwell)
Ratcliffe Cross Street, E1W Ratcliffe Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Ratcliff)
Ratcliffe Lane, E14 Ratcliffe Lane runs south of Limehouse station (Limehouse)
Recurrence Apartments, E1 Recurrence Apartments is located on Commercial Road (Stepney)
Richardson Street, E1 Richardson Street ran from Lindley Street to Wolsey Street (Stepney)
Robert Sutton House, E1 Robert Sutton House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Rochelle Court, E1 Rochelle Court are flats with shops underneath from 1938 (Shadwell)
Ronald Street, E1 Ronald Street appeared in a series of parallel streets first emerging in the 1830s (Shadwell)
Rosea House, E1 Rosea House is sited on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Roslin House, E1W Roslin House can be found on Brodlove Lane (Shadwell)
Sambrook House, E1 Sambrook House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Sandhurst House, E1 Sandhurst House can be found on Wolsey Street (Stepney)
School House Lane, School House Lane is an old East End street (Ratcliff)
Schoolhouse Lane, E1W Schoolhouse Lane connects Cable Street and The Highway (Ratcliff)
Senrab Street, E1 Senrab Street is the name ’Barnes’ reversed (Stepney Green)
Shadwell Gardens, E1 Shadwell Gardens serves the Shadwell Gardens Estate (Shadwell)
Shadwell Place, E1 Shadwell Place is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Sheridan Street, John Street was given the name Sheridan Street, E1 in 1864 (Shadwell)
Shipwright House, E1 Shipwright House is a block on Boulcott Street (Ratcliff)
Sidney Square, E1 Sidney Square is an old square dating from the 1820s (Stepney Green)
Sidney Street, E1 Sidney Street is a notably historic street of the East End (Stepney)
Silver Street, E1 Silver Street ran parallel with Gold Street, though it was narrower (Stepney Green)
Sims House, E1 Sims House is a block on Havering Street (Shadwell)
Smith Street, E1 Because of the number of Smith Streets in London, the road became Smithy Street during the 1930s (Stepney)
Smithy Street, E1 Smithy Street was called Smith Street until 1938 (Stepney)
Spencer Street, E1 Spencer Street ran east-west north of Shadwell station (Shadwell)
St Dunstans Mews, E1 St Dunstans Mews faces St Dunstan’s Churchyard (Stepney Green)
St Thomas House, E1 St Thomas House is a block on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Causeway, E1 Stepney Causeway is associated with Thomas John Barnardo, who opened his first shelter for homeless children at number 18. (Shadwell)
Stepney City Apartments, E1 Stepney City Apartments is a modern pair of blocks on the corner of Jubilee Street and Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green, E1 Stepney Green was originally a 15th century row of houses near to St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Stepney High Street, E1 Stepney High Street was previously the main street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Stepney Way, E1 Stepney Way is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Stifford House, E1 Stifford House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Summercourt Road, E1 Summercourt Road is parallel with Commercial Road, one block north (Stepney Green)
Sutton Street East, In Stepney E1, Church Road became Sutton Street East in 1862 (Shadwell)
Sutton Street, E1 Sutton Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Tarling Street, E1 Tarling Street appears on maps of 1832 and 1855 as Terling Street, and may have been named from the builder (Shadwell)
Temple Court, E1 Temple Court can be found on Rectory Square (Stepney Green)
The Ship Apartments, E1 The Ship Apartments is a block on Hardinge Street (Shadwell)
Thirza House, E1 Thirza House is a block on Devonport Street (Shadwell)
Thirza Street, E1W Thirza Street was situated off Hardinge Street, immediately south of the railway (Shadwell)
Thomas Street, Thomas Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Thornwill House, E1 Thornwill House is a building on Martineau Street (Shadwell)
Tillotson Street, E1 Tillotson Street was built on land belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Tottan Terrace, E1 Tottan Terrace is a pathway along the southern edge of the Belgrave Open Space (Stepney Green)
Troon House, E1 Troon House is a block of flats situated west of White Horse Road (Stepney Green)
Troon Street, E14 Troon Street is a very short street and is the westward extension of Salmon Lane (Stepney Green)
Vine Cottages, E1 Vine Cottages is the name of a 1960s block facing Jubilee Gardens (Stepney Green)
Vogler House, E1 Vogler House is a 6-storey block containing 24 dwellings (Shadwell)
Wakeling Street, E14 A street within the E14 postcode (Limehouse)
Walter Street, E1 Walter Street was swept away after the Second World War (Stepney Green)
Walter Terrace, E1 Walter Terrace is a renaming of the southern end of Walter Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Warren Place, E1W A street within the E1 postcode (Ratcliff)
Warton Court, E1W Warton Court is sited on Cable Street (Shadwell)
Warton Place, E1W Warton Place, at the turn of the twentieth century, led to a glass factory (Shadwell)
Wellesley Street, E1 Wellesley Street was severely truncated post-war (Stepney Green)
West Arbour Street, E1 West Arbour Street runs north from Commercial Road to Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Westport Street, E1 Westport Street runs north from Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Wetton House, E1 Wetton House overlooks the southern edge of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Wexford House, E1 Wexford House is a 6-storey block containing 44 dwellings (Stepney)
White Horse Road, E1 White Horse Road is an ancient lane, running to the east of St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
White Horse Street, E14 Until the early 20th century, White Horse Street stretched uninterrupted from Stepney Churchyard to Butcher Row, leading down to the riverside (Limehouse)
Wickham Close, E1 Wickham Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
William Fry House, E1 William Fry House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Wingrad House, E1 Wingrad House is a block on the northern section of Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Winterton House, E1 Winterton House is a block on Deancross Street (Shadwell)
Wolsey Street, E1 Wolsey Street is an old East End street of which a tiny remnant remains (Stepney)
Woollen House, E1 Woollen House is a block on Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Yule Court, E1 Yule Court was replaced by the Shadwell Gardens Estate during the 1970s (Shadwell)
Zion House, E1 Zion House is a residential building comprising 35 flats (Stepney Green)


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