Entrance Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Gateway.

Entrance Gateway

WRENN ID
drifting-oriel-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1985
Type
Gateway
Address
Entrance Gateway, Leamouth Road E14
OS grid reference
TQ 389 811
Coordinates
51.51184, 0.00057
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance gateway, dating from 1807 to 1815, is located on Leamouth Road in Blackwall Goods Yard. It features a pair of gatepiers connected by a later brick wall. The gatepiers are made of stuccoed brick with Portland stone bases. They have broad moulded designs, with the front faces having battered edges and pointed crests that resemble pylons, although the top of the left-hand pier is missing. Each pier has a Coade stone Caduceus emblem inset. This gateway originally served as an entrance to the East India Company's Cos Pepper group of Warehouses, and S P Cockerell was appointed as the surveyor to the company in 1806.

Local climate

Entrance Gateway 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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