Dock Manager's Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1998. Offices. 2 related planning applications.
Dock Manager's Offices
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-soffit-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- West Ham and Beckton MP: James Asser (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1998
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Dock Manager's Offices, Royal Albert Dock, Royal Albert Way, E16 2QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 426 807
- Coordinates
- 51.50803, 0.05451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dock Manager's Offices, located at Royal Albert Dock, is a Customs House built in 1883 by Vigers and Wagstaffe, designed somewhat in the style of Norman Shaw. The building features pebbledashed brick and stone with a tiled roof and has a basement and two storeys, arranged in an H-shaped plan.
The central range consists of four bays with projecting gabled wings and jettied upper storeys. The ground floor has long, thin segmental-headed sash windows with original glazing bars, framed by red brick architraves and stone keys, topped with hood moulds. There are two rusticated stone round-arched entrance doorways, each surmounted by open scrolled pediments that contain architraved windows. A stone stringcourse runs along the first floor. The upper storey windows break the roofline of the centre to create gabled dormers, while the wings feature tripartite windows with central oriels and lunette windows above. All gables have plain bargeboards.
The roof is topped with a lantern at the ridge, flanked by twin stacks, and there are shafted stacks on the return elevations.
Local climate
Dock Manager's Offices 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 98% 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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