Former Excise Office is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Office. 19 related planning applications.
Former Excise Office
- WRENN ID
- small-joist-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Former Excise Office, West India Dock Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 372 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50824, -0.0243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Excise Office, built in 1807 by Thomas Morris, is a two-storey building located on West India Dock Road. Constructed from stock brick with stucco dressings and topped with hipped slate roofs, it features six bays arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern, with the central bay set forward. The ground floor has been altered, with the original central doorway replaced by two windows, and modern doors installed in the second and fifth bays. The outer arched windows have segmental pediments and stucco architraves. The upper floor windows are all sash windows with glazing bars, architraves, pediments, and a cill band. A balustraded parapet with a central vestigial pediment crowns the building. The north elevation has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, while the south elevation is lowered and features two windows separated by a chimney stack. The stucco embellishments were added in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Former Excise Office 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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- Related listed building consents — 19 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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