British Waterways Customs House on West Quay of Regent's Canal Dock Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. A C20 Customs house. 8 related planning applications.

British Waterways Customs House on West Quay of Regent's Canal Dock Entrance

WRENN ID
over-oriel-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 July 1983
Type
Customs house
Address
British Waterways Customs House on West Quay of Regent's Canal Dock Entrance, Narrow Street E14
OS grid reference
TQ 362 807
Coordinates
51.50966, -0.03784
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The British Waterways Customs House, located on the west quay of the Regent's Canal dock entrance, was built between 1905 and 1910. This two-storey building is designed in an early 18th-century domestic style, featuring red brick construction with rusticated stucco quoins, a plinth, and a plat band. The steep hipped tiled roof is adorned with modillion brackets at the eaves cornice.

The east elevation has six bays, with a splayed corner bay and a three-bay return facing the river. The windows are revealed horned glazing bar sash types, topped with flat gauged brick arches. The river elevation has similar but narrower windows and includes a secondary entrance framed by pilasters, a frieze, and a modillion cornice. Additionally, there is a stuccoed enclosed porch that features pilasters and a segmental pediment, with a doorway that has an architrave surround.

Local climate

British Waterways Customs House on West Quay of Regent's Canal Dock Entrance 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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