243 Whitechapel Road

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241–243 Whitechapel Road
Contributed by Survey of London on Nov. 17, 2017

This stock-brick asymmetrical pair of around 1835, possibly built for Henry and Joseph Gibbs, was leased for quotidian shopkeeping. Its first-floor relieving arches are in other contexts typical of earlier decades. There had been a 500-year lease of the sites of Nos 243 and 245 in 1672. In the 1890s No. 241 housed the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel before it gained purpose-built premises at 189 Whitechapel Road. It was reportedly rebuilt in 1950–1 after war damage. Render was removed from both façades around 2012.¹