Accumulator Tower on the West Side of Poplar Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.
Accumulator Tower on the West Side of Poplar Dock
- WRENN ID
- watchful-granite-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1983
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Accumulator Tower on the West Side of Poplar Dock, Preston's Road E14
- OS grid reference
- TQ 381 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50552, -0.01157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Accumulator Tower on the west side of Poplar Dock is a hydraulic accumulator tower built around 1875. It is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings. The tower features occuli arranged beneath the eaves of a pyramidal slate roof, which is topped by a finial. This structure is contemporary with another accumulator tower located in the southeast corner of Poplar Dock and served as a power source for the dockside vanes.
Local climate
Accumulator Tower on the West Side of Poplar Dock 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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