11 Wapping High Street and area railings is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
11 Wapping High Street and area railings
- WRENN ID
- turning-lancet-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 11 Wapping High Street and area railings, E1, E1W 1PN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 345 800
- Coordinates
- 51.50347, -0.06215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
11 Wapping High Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of stock brick. It features a white stone coped parapet and a white stone band above the ground floor. The building has three storeys and a basement, with four windows, all of which are round arched on the ground floor and fitted with sashes that include glazing bars. The entrance consists of a round arched door with a fanlight above and a six-panelled door. Additionally, there are area railings surrounding the property.
The iron railings and paved roadway of Wapping Pier Head are part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 15 (consecutive), No 4½, the Town of Ramsgate Public House, Oliver's Wharf, this section of the wall and entrance to London Docks, and four bollards, as well as Wapping Old Stairs and Wapping High Street.
Local climate
11 Wapping High Street and area railings 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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Nearby listed buildings
- Town of Ramsgate Public House
- Stone bollards outside Town of Ramsgate Public House and 10 Wapping Pier Head
- Oliver's Wharf
- Iron railings (including lamp brackets) to 1 to 10 Wapping Pier Head and on both sides of former swing bridge to Wapping Basin
- 4 1/2, WAPPING PIER HEAD E1 (See details for further address information)
- Wapping Old Stairs (Stairs and Flagged Passage from Wapping High Street)
- Four bollards (one outside 4, Wapping Pier Head, three on opposite side of Wapping High Street flanking the entrance to Hermitage Wall)
- St John's Schools
- St John's Church
- St John's Wharves Warehouses North Block (Oddbin's Limited)