View of three- and two-storey with attics clapboard houses at 26 and 27 Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. With the brick-built two-storey manufactory at number 28, on the left, looking west along the accessway to Stable Yard. The house at number 26 has side light sash windows downstairs, six-over-six sash windows upstairs. The colonial-style house at number 27, in the yard behind, are the premises of Everett and Company, bonded carmen, contractors and shipping agents. The brick building of the former sugar house of Ellerman on Well Street, latterly Ensign Street, is visible behind. Number 27 was damaged beyond repair by bombing during World War II, with the remainder of the buildings demolished c1954 and, later, redeveloped as the Shapla Primary School.