Pelican Stairs is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. Stairs.

Pelican Stairs

WRENN ID
knotted-passage-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Stairs
Address
Pelican Stairs, Wapping Wall E1, Tower Hamlets
OS grid reference
TQ 353 804
Coordinates
51.50698, -0.05112
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pelican Stairs are old wooden stairs leading down to the River Thames from the Prospect of Whitby Public House. They are part of a group that includes the Prospect of Whitby Public House and the London Hydraulic Power Company's Pumping Station.

Local climate

Pelican Stairs sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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