Jamaica Wharf is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.

Jamaica Wharf

WRENN ID
gentle-wall-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 July 1983
Type
Warehouse
Address
Jamaica Wharf, 2, Shad Thames, SE1 2YU
OS grid reference
TQ 338 797
Coordinates
51.50062, -0.07364
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jamaica Wharf is a warehouse built in 1883, now converted into flats, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings and features a red brick dentilled cornice at the new parapet, which has a new attic storey behind it. Originally, the building extended further to the south. It has three storeys and an attic, with six bays.

In the third bay from the left, there is a hatch rank above the ground floor, which is surmounted by a bracketed hood set against a small gable. The altered ground floor retains the upper part of a blind arcade to the right, featuring three gauged red brick round arches, with an oculus in the right arch and three openings below. There is a doorway with a segmental brick hood beneath the hatch rank and two round-headed openings to the left. The first and second floors have narrow windows with gauged red brick segmental heads. The dockside elevation has been partly rebuilt, and there is a rebuilt return to the right. The building backs onto St Saviour's Dock and is part of a notable sequence of warehouses between St Saviour's Dock and Shad Thames. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Jamaica Wharf 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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