Blackwall Basin is a Grade I listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1983. A 1800-02 Basin.
Blackwall Basin
- WRENN ID
- floating-bronze-ebony
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Poplar and Limehouse MP: Apsana Begum (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1983
- Type
- Basin
- Address
- Blackwall Basin, West India Docks
- OS grid reference
- TQ 381 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50347, -0.0112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackwall Basin, built between 1800 and 1802 by engineer William Jessop, is the first non-tidal basin in the Port of London. It features construction similar to the Import and Export Docks, with concave buttressed quay walls, and much of the coping is made of high-quality ashlar masonry. The locks were enlarged in the 1890s, maintaining the tradition with brick-lined chambers and granite quays. The lock leading into the Poplar Railway Dock also dates from the 1890s.
Local climate
Blackwall Basin 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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