A,B,C and D Warehouse, King Henry's Wharves is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Warehouse.
A,B,C and D Warehouse, King Henry's Wharves
- WRENN ID
- pitched-forge-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- A,B,C and D Warehouse, King Henry's Wharves, Wapping High Street E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 349 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50362, -0.05705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' Warehouse at King Henry's Wharves is a Grade II listed building located on the south side of Wapping High Street. This warehouse block, built in the first half of the 19th century, features a brown brick construction with red brick dressings and a hipped slate roof with red tile-clad ridges. It stands five storeys tall with a basement and has ten bays with door ranks on each side. The ground floor doors are framed by massive stone surrounds, while the windows above have red brick segmental arches and red painted sills, all fitted with glazing bars.
The riverfront of the warehouse has a more monumental appearance, characterized by a giant pilastrade that rises from the stylobate ground floor, complemented by a frieze with a brick corbel string, a cornice, and a blocking course. The segmental arched windows on the ground floor are set within segmental arched recesses. There are loading bays on the ground floor below the hatch ranks, which have the same granite surrounds as the street front. Additionally, a large wall-mounted lattice jibbed crane is positioned at the center of the first floor, with a smaller crane located to the right on the second floor.
This building is part of a group that includes No 94 (The Old Aberdeen Wharf), St John's Wharves, and King Henry's Stairs, along with an associated lamp standard. The nearby unlisted Police Station does not obstruct the view of these historic structures.
Local climate
A,B,C and D Warehouse, King Henry's Wharves 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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