Tide Gauge House on South Quay of Greenland Lock is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Tide gauge house.

Tide Gauge House on South Quay of Greenland Lock

WRENN ID
graven-plinth-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 July 1983
Type
Tide gauge house
Address
Tide Gauge House on South Quay of Greenland Lock, Surrey Docks
OS grid reference
TQ 366 792
Coordinates
51.49559, -0.0326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tide Gauge House, located on the south quay of Greenland Lock, was built around 1880-1890. It features stock brick walls set on a black brick plinth, with red brick window arches that have stucco imposts and keys, as well as a similar doorcase. The building has a pyramidal slate roof with flat eaves and a finial chimney. It is a single-storey structure with one window and a square plan. Although the interior has not been inspected, a plaque indicates that this building housed a tide gauge that measured the height of the water in the river. It was incorrectly listed in the past as a guard house.

Local climate

Tide Gauge House on South Quay of Greenland Lock 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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