Principal Entrance Office Blocks is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Office block. 11 related planning applications.
Principal Entrance Office Blocks
- WRENN ID
- open-wattle-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Principal Entrance Office Blocks, Thomas More Street E1, E1W 1YZ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 341 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50829, -0.06863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Principal Entrance Office blocks date from the early 19th century and are located in London Docks, Thomas More Street. They are constructed of yellow stock brick with brick cornices to the pedimented gable ends. A stone string course runs along the sill height of the first floor. The buildings are two storeys high and have a basement, arranged as five bays. The ground floor has round-headed sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor features sash windows with gauged flat arches and glazing bars. The buildings form part of a group of listed buildings and walls associated with the London Docks.
Local climate
Principal Entrance Office Blocks 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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- Surviving Boundary Walls to the Former London Docks (Western Dock), at Thomas More Street, East Smithfield, Redmead Lane, Pennington Street, Wapping Lane, Reardon Street and Tench Street. with Gate Piers at South End of Hermitage Basin, and Wall to South-East of Hermitage Basin, Gate Piers and Attached Wall at North-East End of Pier Head, and Boundary Wall to North and West of St John’s Churchyard.
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- Group of 3 Bollards at Lock Between Basin and East Dock, St Katherine's Docks
- Footbridge (Between the Basin and East Dock Water Areas)
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- St Katherine's Dock (Warehouse C)
- St Paul's Vicarage and area railings, 11 Dock Street
- Boundary Wall and Gate Piers to St Katharine's Dock
- Group of Bollards on Pavement Edge in Front of Site of Former Brunswick Theatre from North Corner of Sailor's Home Southwards to Control Doorway of D T Merchant Marine Office