Central Buffet at Custom House is a Grade II listed building in the Newham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 2000. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Central Buffet at Custom House
- WRENN ID
- rough-cellar-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newham
- Constituency
- West Ham and Beckton MP: James Asser (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 2000
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- Central Buffet at Custom House, Royal Albert Dock, E16 2QH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 427 807
- Coordinates
- 51.50804, 0.05532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Central Buffet at Custom House is a former restaurant built in 1883 by Vigers and Wagstaffe. The building is constructed from rendered and whitewashed brick, featuring elaborate dressings and a plain tile roof with various moulded stacks. It is designed in a free classical style and consists of a single storey with an attic.
The symmetrical front has a central round two-storey bay with a curving roof topped with a finial. On either side of this bay, there are windows set back, with a parapet at the front and a facing gable at each end. The overall design includes a ten-window range plus a seven-window bay, with Ionic pilasters in between.
There are doorways located to the centre left and right, each with oval windows above set in cartouches. The upper section features similar fenestration, with three-light mullioned windows in the gables. The ends of the building also display similar doorways, windows, and gables. The building is currently disused.
Local climate
Central Buffet at Custom House 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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