8 Bollards (On Pavement Outside Main Entrance to Tower of London) is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Bollards.
8 Bollards (On Pavement Outside Main Entrance to Tower of London)
- WRENN ID
- tattered-sandstone-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bollards
- Address
- 8 Bollards (On Pavement Outside Main Entrance to Tower of London), Tower Hill Ec3
- OS grid reference
- TQ 334 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50831, -0.0788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eight cast iron bollards are located on the pavement edge outside the main entrance to the Tower of London. These 19th-century bollards are part of a group that includes the London Hydraulic Power Company's Subway Entrance, the Tower itself, the Queen's Stairs, and Tower Bridge along with its approach.
Local climate
8 Bollards (On Pavement Outside Main Entrance to Tower of London) 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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