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and is 20 metres (66 ft) tall, with 8 storeys. The building features the original metal and glass window design, which was intended to resemble the original Telephone Exchange style, with residential flats on each floor. The Exchange Building benefits from 24-hour porters as well as an
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for British Telecom. In the end BT never used the building instead using a building immediately behind in Jerome St - 1928 by the Office of Works. The Exchange Building is located on the A1202 Inner London Arterial Ring Road at 132
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in 1927. Above the central entrance, raised attic with Art Deco fluting and clock. The top storey was added in 1998-9 when converted to residential apartments.
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The building was the first in a wave of converted residential buildings in East London, as the
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named after the original purpose of the building, which was to be a
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Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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area was gentrified at the turn of the 21st century.
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Exchange Building (disambiguation)

Commercial Street
London
United Kingdom
Coordinates
51°30′46″N 0°04′53″W / 51.5129°N 0.0815°W / 51.5129; -0.0815
W Gilbee Scott & BWH Scott
residential building
London
Telephone Exchange
Commercial Street
Tower Hamlets
Peabody building
Royal Cambridge Music Hall
faience facings
Tower Hamlets
icon
London portal
icon
Architecture portal
Spitalfields
Brick Lane
"Emporis building ID 135969"
Emporis
cite web
link
Categories
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Residential buildings completed in 2000

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