Warehouse W is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1998. Warehouse. 7 related planning applications.
Warehouse W
- WRENN ID
- plain-cobble-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- West Ham and Beckton MP: James Asser (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1998
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Warehouse W, Royal Victoria Dock, E16 1BD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 405 807
- Coordinates
- 51.50835, 0.02407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Warehouse W is a warehouse dating from approximately 1860 to 1865, built as an early structure within the Royal Victoria Dock. The building is constructed from yellow stock brick with a slate roof. It is four storeys high, featuring an eleven-bay facade with a symmetrical rhythm of window bays and loopholes. The central bay contains three segment-headed loopholes with timber doors and an iron hoist. Ground, first, and second floor openings are contained within shallow round-arched recesses, with segmental-headed windows subdivided by iron glazing bars. Fourth-floor openings are formed as blind recesses. The gabled end elevations are blank, with stepped brick decoration to the parapet.
The internal construction is consistent across all four storeys, featuring timber floors supported by three cast-iron columns running the depth of the building. The columns have flanged caps supporting spreader plates and full-span coupled beams. A timber straight-flight open staircase is located in the north-west corner of the building. The roof is supported by queen post trusses that are diagonally braced.
Local climate
Warehouse W 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 66 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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