Wall Closing North End of Courtyard is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. Wall.

Wall Closing North End of Courtyard

WRENN ID
sacred-obsidian-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 July 1983
Type
Wall
Address
Wall Closing North End of Courtyard, the Highway E1
OS grid reference
TQ 353 807
Coordinates
51.50941, -0.0516
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The wall closing the north end of the courtyard, built around 1820, is associated with the Shadwell dock wall and is of the same height. It abuts the churchyard retaining wall and features two large plain buttress piers. The stone coping is broken forward over the wall, which has a sharply curved return leading to the doorway of No. 1. This wall is included for its group value with St Paul's Terrace and has group value with the church, as it adjoins the churchyard wall. Additionally, it has sociological interest as it blocks the entrance to the adjacent houses from the Highway, making them accessible only via an alley leading from the dockside.

Local climate

Wall Closing North End of Courtyard 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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