West India Dock Former Guard House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Guard house.

West India Dock Former Guard House

WRENN ID
dark-step-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Guard house
Address
West India Dock Former Guard House, West India Dock Road E14
OS grid reference
TQ 371 805
Coordinates
51.50766, -0.02547
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The West India Dock former Guard House is a small circular building dating from around 1803, designed by architect George Gwilt. It is constructed of panelled brick and features band courses, a plinth, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The building has a copper-covered domed roof with a stone panelled chimney and is a single storey high. It includes round arched windows, some of which are blank. This structure served as a Guard House when the company maintained its own guards. It is one of a former pair built as a lock-up and armoury.

Local climate

West India Dock Former Guard House 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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