Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Staircase and passage.

Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Staircase and passage
Address
Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street), Wapping High Street E1
OS grid reference
TQ 345 800
Coordinates
51.50314, -0.06223
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wapping Old Stairs, located on the south side of Wapping High Street, is a structure from the 18th century, although the stairs may be older. It features a stone flagged passage that leads to the stairs, accompanied by a stone wall alongside them. The iron railings and paved roadway of Wapping Pier Head are part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 15 (consecutive), No 4½, the Town of Ramsgate Public House, Oliver's Wharf, and this section of the wall and entrance to London Docks, along with four bollards.

Local climate

Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street) 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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  1. 4 1/2, WAPPING PIER HEAD E1 (See details for further address information) Grade II 9 m
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  3. Oliver's Wharf Grade II 33 m
  4. 11 Wapping High Street and area railings Grade II 36 m
  5. Iron railings (including lamp brackets) to 1 to 10 Wapping Pier Head and on both sides of former swing bridge to Wapping Basin Grade II 43 m
  6. Stone bollards outside Town of Ramsgate Public House and 10 Wapping Pier Head Grade II 48 m
  7. Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall) Grade II 81 m
  8. St John's Schools Grade II 96 m
  9. A and E Warehouses, St John's Wharves Grade II 120 m
  10. St John's Church Grade II 125 m