Pennington Street Warehouses (Including Former Canteen and Vaults Below) is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Warehouse. 24 related planning applications.

Pennington Street Warehouses (Including Former Canteen and Vaults Below)

WRENN ID
late-balcony-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Warehouse
Address
Pennington Street Warehouses (Including Former Canteen and Vaults Below), Thomas More Street E1
OS grid reference
TQ 345 806
Coordinates
51.50861, -0.0631
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pennington Street Warehouses, dating from around 1804, are located in the London Docks area. The ground floor is mostly intact and constructed from stock brick. The building features a wooden queen post roof with a distinctive construction at the ends. There are springings and keyed arches intended for a vault that was never built, which would have connected to the warehouses above at the first floor level (Nos 2 to 5). At the western end, there is a block of four storeys with two bays. The windows have segmental heads and glazing bars, while the top floors have blank spaces. A parapet and a stone string course are present at the first floor, and there is a double recessed centre door.

Local climate

Pennington Street Warehouses (Including Former Canteen and Vaults Below) 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
  • Related listed building consents — 24 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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