Latitude: 51.5313 / 51°31'52"N
Longitude: -0.022 / 0°1'19"W
OS Eastings: 537299
OS Northings: 183231
OS Grid: TQ372832
Mapcode National: GBR K3.C3F
Mapcode Global: VHGQV.KRQZ
Plus Code: 9C3XGXJH+G6
Entry Name: Fairfield Match Works (Bryant and May)
Listing Date: 27 September 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1065187
English Heritage Legacy ID: 205964
ID on this website: 101065187
Location: Festubert Place, Tower Hamlets, London, E3
County: London
District: Tower Hamlets
Electoral Ward/Division: Bow East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Tower Hamlets
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul Old Ford
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 3783 7/52
FAIRFIELD ROAD E3(East Side)Fairfield Match Works(Bryant and May)
GII
Date stone 1874 but factory founded in 1861.Commended for the excellence of its working conditions as early as 1862.Administrative building of stock brick with red and bluc brick dressings.Brick and stone capped eave cornice.Roof not visible.Three storeys,fifteen bays width.Southern three bays and one to north of entrance have gothic arches containing first and second floor windows.Windows mostly unbarred sashes.Entrance asymmetrically placed.Pediment above alsightly advanced entrance block with central gothic arch.Clock in tympanum with stone shields and bas relief carving.Stone faced ground floor with entrance doors;flanking windows and decorative plaques with the firm's monogram etc.The buildings and wall of the listed part of Fairfield Match Works form a group important in both the social and economic history of Bow.
Listing NGR: TQ3729983231
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