Alderman Stairs and gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Stairs and gate piers.
Alderman Stairs and gate piers
- WRENN ID
- guardian-portal-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Stairs and gate piers
- Address
- Alderman Stairs and gate piers, St Katharine's Way, E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 340 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50517, -0.07008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alderman Stairs and gate piers are located on the south side of St Katharine's Way in London. They consist of stairs and a causeway leading down to the river, along with gate piers at the road entrance. The gate piers are large square structures made of brick, topped with white stone caps and spiked iron ball finials. Alderman Stairs and gate piers are part of a group that includes the British & Foreign Wharf G Warehouse and No 84, which serves as offices.
Local climate
Alderman Stairs and gate piers 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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- 5 British and Foreign Wharves G Warehouse
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