Drake HouseShadwell, Tower Hamlets

Stepney Way, E1 3BE · nearest station Whitechapel (465 m) · data as of 19 Jun 2026

78: active short-letsreviewed in the last 12 months
41%: are entire homes32 homes, 45 private rooms
£90: median nightly pricefrom 65 listed prices
124: nights booked a yearmedian, estimated
£14,300: yearly revenue per listingmedian, estimated
49%: run by large operatorshosts with 10+ London listings

Bedroom mix

1 bed 78%
2 bed 15%
3 bed 5%
4+ bed 1%

Average 1.3 bedrooms — roughly 1.3 linen sets per changeover.

Guest reviews per month (proxy for stays)

Jun 2025 – May 2026. Busiest: May 2026; quietest: February 2026.

What it means for linen

~56 changeovers a week within 250 m

Every checkout is a bed to strip and a set to replace. Around Drake House that adds up to an estimated 2,890 changeovers a year — about 73 sets of bed linen a week.

2,890: changeovers a year, est.
~73: linen sets a week, est.

Nearby buildings on the E1 round

Building	Street	Distance	Short-lets within 250 m
Wingrad House	Jubilee Street	90 m	63
Jarman House	Jubilee Street	100 m	58
Wexford House	Sidney Street	100 m	56
Beckett House	Jubilee Street	140 m	57
Georgette Apartments	Cendal Crescent	140 m	57

LPLAUNDRY

Drake House · 19 Jun 2026

What guests say about linen nearby

34 of 1,164 guest reviews here in the last 12 months mention sheets, towels or linen; about 11 of those point to a problem.

“Linen, towels, kitchen towels and utensils and appliancies, you have everything you need.”Airbnb guest near Drake House · December 2025

“Clean bedsheets and towels, comfy beds and overall in decent condition.”Airbnb guest near Drake House · December 2025

“We also noticed a couple of towels with small stains, but everything else was clean and in order.”Airbnb guest near Drake House · August 2025

Reviews of local short-lets, not of LPLaundry. Names removed.

How LPLaundry keeps short-let linen moving

49% of lets here are run by operatorsRun more than one flat near Drake House? They go on one account — one invoice, one collection round across Tower Hamlets, one person to call.
One flat is not too small to matterNo minimum order and no contract. We already pass Drake House on the E1 round, so a single property is collected the same way fifty are.
May is the busy month hereReviews around Drake House peak in May and bottom out in February. We raise your spare sets before the run-up, so the week you are fullest is not the week you run out.
Grey linen in guest photosWashed at our own Wembley plant, 10.4 miles from Drake House — the E1 round collects from Stepney Way and the 8 named buildings around it — not in a domestic machine, and bagged by set ready to use.

Airbnb laundry near Drake House

Linen hire and changeover laundry, collected and delivered 7 days on the E1 round. No minimum order.

020 4621 9097 lplaundry.com · get a quote online

Sources and method. Short-let figures: ,[object Object],, London snapshot 19 Jun 2026, licensed ,[object Object],. Active means at least one review in the previous 12 months. Building name, address and nearest station: © ,[object Object],, licensed ,[object Object],. All figures describe listings within 250 m of the building. They say nothing about any flat in Drake House itself. Medians are shown only when at least 10 listings report the value. Prices above £2000 a night are excluded as outliers. The 90-night limit on short lets in Greater London is the ,[object Object],, not our interpretation of it. Rebuilt each time Inside Airbnb publishes a new London snapshot, about every three months. Short-let research, figures and method: Hassam Rafkey, Short-Let Research & Data Consultant and independent consultant to LPLaundry (15 years in Airbnb and short-let research). LPLaundry is a trading name of HHFA Group Services Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16234834. Registered office: 1B Chantry Place, Harrow HA3 6NY. Spotted a figure that looks wrong? ,[object Object], and we will check it against the source and correct it.

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