Entrance Lodges at the Royal Mint is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Lodges.
Entrance Lodges at the Royal Mint
- WRENN ID
- small-jade-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lodges
- Address
- Entrance Lodges at the Royal Mint, Tower Hill Ec3
- OS grid reference
- TQ 338 806
- Coordinates
- 51.50927, -0.07309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Entrance Lodges at The Royal Mint, designed by architect Sir Robert Smirke, were built in the early 19th century. The northern lodge features a rendered facade with tall white piers framing a square-headed entrance arch. Above this, there is an entablature, cornice, and blocking course. The lodge consists of a one-bay, two-storey section with a band above the door to the north, and an advanced five-bay, three-storey section with a band between. It includes sash windows and one round window. The southern lodge has a similar rendered facade and tall white piers, but its entrance arch is blind. It has a symmetrical design to that of the northern lodge, with an entablature, cornice, and blocking course above, and a blind doorway to the south. The rest of the building extends to the east. The lodges are part of a group of listed buildings at the Royal Mint.
Local climate
Entrance Lodges at the Royal Mint 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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