Archway to Rotherhithe Tunnel Approach is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Archway.
Archway to Rotherhithe Tunnel Approach
- WRENN ID
- sharp-gallery-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1983
- Type
- Archway
- OS grid reference
- TQ 351 796
- Coordinates
- 51.4993, -0.05428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The archway to the Rotherhithe Tunnel approach was built in 1908 and designed by architect Thomas Blashill with chief engineer Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. It features two massive banded granite piers that have plinths and cornice caps, which support a flanged and bolted semicircular steel arch. This design illustrates the arched bracing of the tunnel itself. The tunnel was opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King George V, in the same year. This archway is identical to the one located on the Middlesex shore in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Local climate
Archway to Rotherhithe Tunnel Approach 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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