27 Commercial Road

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27 Commercial Road
Contributed by Survey of London on June 20, 2016

This four-storey corner warehouse was built in 1872–3 for Edmund Richard Goodrich, an oilman whose premises had been taken for the westwards extension of Commercial Road through Whitechapel. Thomas Ennor was the builder of what was the first building to go up on the new road.¹

Shutter painting of 2012 here was by Malarky, Chase and Billy.²

The whole site at Nos 27–27A and 29–37 White Church Lane was redeveloped as a tower block in 2018–19 to a scheme prepared in 2012 and refined up to 2016 when the site was cleared. Reef Estates Aldgate Ltd built a twenty-one-storey tower as a 270-bedroom (178 serviced apartments) apart-hotel. The architects were Stock Woolstencroft (Stockwool), the work was carried out by Ardmore Construction Ltd, and the Gate Hotel, which has an entrance and five-storey podium facing White Church Lane, is operated by Portland Brown. A Section 106 agreement provided for a payment of £440,637 towards the upkeep of Altab Ali Park.³