Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall) is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Bollards. 5 related planning applications.
Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall)
- WRENN ID
- fossil-nave-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bollards
- Address
- Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall), E1, E1W 1PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 345 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50364, -0.06308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are four bollards located in Wapping, London. One bollard is situated outside No. 4 Wapping Pier Head, while the other three are on the opposite side of Wapping High Street, flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall. These bollards date from the 19th century and consist of three short granite bollards and one cast iron cannon bollard with iron knees on both sides of Wapping High Street. The iron railings and paved roadway of Wapping Pier Head form a group with Nos 1 to 15 (consecutive), No. 4½ Town of Ramsgate Public House, Oliver's Wharf, and this section of the wall and entrance to London Docks, as well as the four bollards and Wapping Old Stairs.
Local climate
Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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Nearby listed buildings
- Iron railings (including lamp brackets) to 1 to 10 Wapping Pier Head and on both sides of former swing bridge to Wapping Basin
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- Town of Ramsgate Public House
- Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street)
- Oliver's Wharf
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- St John's Church
- Church of St Patrick (Roman Catholic)