Railings and Gatepiers to Former Excise Office is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Gatepiers, railings.

Railings and Gatepiers to Former Excise Office

WRENN ID
pitched-rood-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Gatepiers, railings
Address
Railings and Gatepiers to Former Excise Office, West India Dock Road
OS grid reference
TQ 372 806
Coordinates
51.50825, -0.02415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railings and gatepiers to the former Excise Office, built in 1807, are located on West India Dock Road. They feature contemporary iron railings alongside six rusticated stucco gatepiers at the street front. The stucco decoration of the piers was elaborated in the mid 19th century.

Local climate

Railings and Gatepiers to Former Excise Office 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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